What’s up guys, my band and I are recording songs right now and we are wanting do do some covers and some original songs and make it all into one album. (Check us out on Instagram our band name is Infinite Contention!! Give us a follow) anyway, I was told that in order to legally do covers and sell it online you have to pay royalties to the original artist, and I was also told that you don’t have to as long as you state who the song was originally written by. I just want to know before I go recording songs and wasting my time. And I don’t want to do anything illegal. Thanks everyone