Affordable Song License offers audio only cover song licenses called compulsory mechanical licenses. These licenses are good for releasing your cover song on physical formats like CD, vinyl, and ca...
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If you found your song in the ASL Database, your ASL Mechanical Licensing Certificate is available immediately in your user dashboard.
That is the process. That's it! Immediate proof of licensing i...
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Affordable Song Licensing helps you legally release your recording of a song that you did not write.
We have the lowest fees online of $12/song plus royalties (That's it!)
The ASL Database is one ...
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We need a few pieces of information for the licensing paperwork:
Your name, address, email
Your artist name
Your album title
Formats you'll release the cover on
Quantity you are licensing (per for...
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Confused as to what formats you need to license when you are going through a digital distributor? We get it. And you aren't alone. We get those calls from artists like you every day.Let's start by ...
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You may have heard that you don't need a license to put your cover songs on streaming platforms like Spotify or TIDAL. That would be correct. You see, the Mechanical Licensing Collective has blanke...
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There's releases with high expectations that are only downloaded a handful of times. I've personally had a few of those releases myself.Then, there's releases that go viral and wind up being downlo...
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Nope!
We don't charge you an extra $12 just because you want to release your cover song on CD and as a digital download... It's just one fee regardless of how many formats you release it on.
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If you are going through a digital distributor, you do not need a license for interactive streams (streams on Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, etc).Spotify, Apple Music, and most other streaming services al...
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The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply because those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapp...
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Every year, starting in September/October, our phones begin to ring off the hook with the same request..."I'm doing a Christmas album. Do I need to license the songs?"Many people assume that Christ...
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We work with artists that release video game covers all the time! However, video game soundtracks pose a unique issue with licensing.In order to be eligible for a compulsory mechanical license, the...
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