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Originally Posted by Wormius
If someone does a cover of a song like, recently, “Fast Car”, does Luke Combs basically pay all of the proceeds from it to Tracy Chapman? I remember hearing when Men at Work had to pay a ton of money just for copying the tune from the “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree” song.
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Oh yeah, a cover is 100% to the original writer. Artists do it either because they love a song and want to cover it or because their label wants them to do a cover as loss leader as it can get millions of plays and get their name out there.