Can someone please explain how to get Synchronization Rights to a Cover Version of a song? Or who would have control of whether you can use a cover version in a film. [more inside]
posted by mary8nne on Sep 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Thinking of Joe Cocker's great cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends", I started wondering: what other cover versions have actually changed the time signature of the original? [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jun 21, 2008 - 47 answers

I'd like to find some examples of bands rerecording their own songs with foreign language versions of the lyrics, please. [more inside]
posted by terrynutkins on Feb 15, 2008 - 72 answers

What are some cover versions of well known songs that have refashioned or rearranged the piece so dramatically as to seem not exactly the covered song, but more of a unique work in and of itself? [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Sep 24, 2007 - 97 answers