Who draws the line on what constitutes a cover and what constitutes a derivative work in this scenario? Officially, Devo's 'Secret Agent Man' is a cover song, but they wrote entirely new music and words for the verses and only the choruses bear any resemblance to the classic song. My band once did a version of 'Back in Black' where we got through the first verse and chorus pretty much straight up, and then the singer kept going with the second verse while we fell apart into a kind of deranged free-jazz freak-out underneath him. Does that still count as a cover? I'm sure Hendrix is rolling in his grave, and if Wonder is actually behind this, shame on him.
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