Talk:Just Dance 2017/@comment-6394196-20161004234159/@comment-1465604-20161005011919

There can be many reasons for using a cover instead of the original song:
 * It's cheaper
 * The rights holders do not want the original version to be used, but are fine with a cover being used or they've already licensed covers to be made with the rights of the covers being owned by other people, so Ubisoft can negotiate with them instead of the original rights owners for licensing rights
 * The master tapes are gone or damaged, so there's no way to reproduce the song with high quality sound or doing so would cost tons and tons of money.
 * Different people own the rights depending on the continent or even country. Owner A might be fine with licensing the song in Asia while Owner B is not fine with doing so in Europe. Instead of giving us different versions of the game with different versions of the song depending on region (which would cost Ubisoft more money), they just went with a cover
 * Who knows?