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Originally posted by techie_girl_44
...I wonder if whomever made this CD got rights or permission to do "covers" of Aaliyah's music. I just can't see anybody selling off rights to those songs to people who cannot sing. Maybe it's really all about the money to them. 
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If a song has already been recorded, you don't have to get permission to re-record it, as long as you acknowledge the WRITER and pay appropriately. I'm not sure if Aalyiah was a writer or not, but many performers do not have publishing rights or writing credit on the material they perform.