Artists cannot copyright their style of performance, but do have copyrights over a song’s musical composition and their performance of the song.Tributes: often similar to original artist, with alterations that suit the cover artist’s style.Altering the original with stylistic changes (genre, vocal arrangement, instrumentation, etc.).Many early covers were “white” versions of songs recorded by black musicians that would not receive airplay on white radio stations without being altered to be more stylistically accessible.Don McLean: a cover song is a performance by an artist of an older, previously-performed work of another artist (McLean 2004).Cover songs differed from earlier practices of reproducing sheet music in a public performance setting.Cover song (1952): “trade jargon meaning to record a tune that looks like a potential hit on someone else’s label” (Leonard 1952: A4).How YouTube covers can help and hinder artistic creativity and promote music careers.How current copyright laws affect song covers posted on YouTube.
Analysis and critique of current copyright system.For the full text of this paper, see this page.
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