My new album is close to finished and one of the songs on it is a cover. I have absolutely no idea how to go about this. I suppose my main questions are:
1) Do I need to get permission before releasing a cover of a song, and if so, who from?
2) Can I sell this song? And if I sell it do I have to make sure the proper rights are being afforded to the original writers, or is this something that is covered by a license, or on the Bandcamp/Soundcloud/iTunes/Spotify end of things?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.