![]() Especially considering your friend is probably a unknown musician, I'm sure Leonard would probably be flattered! However, whomever is responsible for Leonard's publishing probably would NOT be so kind and flattered. I'm sure we would all agree that someone like Leonard Cohen probably wouldn't care about someone covering one of his songs/poems as long as he was properly credited. Normally, if you'd like to cover an artist's song you'd have to contact the publishing company (after first figuring out who owns the publishing rights) and request permission. Hopefully we will have an update soon as I'm sure Leonard fans will enjoy a listen. Pretty much everyone involved with the project feels it will be no problem releasing the track (we expect that we are simply "too small a fish" for Leonard's people to even bother replying to), but have decided to wait it out a bit longer and possibly try going through a system like and see if we can put the process through even though it is a cover-poem-into-song instead of the usual. What's holding us up at this point is no communications to Leonard's legal contacts have resulted in a reply. ![]() While I realize I'm biased, I believe the musicians have turned this into a truly beautiful song. It has also been performed live to excellent response. The song has been recorded in-studio and the final studio polish is on it. In fact, there is a specific legal process in place which essentially guarantees that a person can get legal permission to cover and record another artist's SONG, but we've been utterly unable to figure out what to do when the work is not yet a song, but a poem. What we've discovered is that this process is indeed very straight-forward if you wish to cover a song. Hopefully, if it works out, it will be a nice little treat for the Leonard community.) (I don't want to tell you any more specifics at this point. I believe (I have been told, anyway) if this was simply a "cover song" the process would be fairly easy, but I have no idea how to go about this outside of trying to contact Leonard 's literary agent (if he has one) or Harper Collins (publishers of Book of Longing) directly. Unfortunately, he has always written and recorded his own music, so has never had to go through this process and is currently very short on time. He's working on his latest album for a December and has decided that he would like to include the work if we can get permission quickly enough. To keep the long-story short for now: a singer-songwriter-recording-artist friend of mine, at my request, set a poem from Book of Longing to music for my daughter to sing. I'm hoping someone here might have an "inside track" on how to accomplish such a thing.
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