Finding copyright info for covers

[pklima]

A label is about to send me a form listing author and copyright info necessary to pay mechanical licenses and get an album pressed. The trouble is, I don't actually know who wrote some of the covers, who holds the copyright, or what the copyright year is. I don't have any recordings of the songs, just heard them somewhere and decided to cover them. Nothing all that obscure but to complicate things slightly there are French, Japanese, Brazilian and Swedish songs there. (And a German one but that one is by Franz Schubert so it's not a problem, haha.) Is there some standard or convenient way of digging up that information?

If it makes any difference, the label is in England - perhaps the local equivalent of Harry Fox might have a database and be able to help out?

[GaryM]

Mechanical licensing in the UK is handled by the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society. Their website is at http://www.prsformusic.com/

[pklima]

Thanks! We'll see if they're willing to help.