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The Harry Fox Agency is a liaison between artists recording cover tunes and the respective copyright owners and publishers. What is the fist step in the proper handling of cover tunes? We’ll keep this as simple as possible. As long as you are planning to release your own original recording of someone else’s song and the arrangement hasn’t been substantially altered, the quickest and most efficient action is to contact Harry Fox! You see the Harry Fox Agency is dedicated to the task of helping artists pay the necessary mechanical license that is mandatory whenever you distribute your original recording of someone else’s copyrighted song. Click here for the current Statutory Royalty Rates currently required.
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NEW YORK, December 3, 2001 - Gary Churgin, President / CEO, Harry Fox Agency (HFA) today announced that Michael S. Simon will be the agency's new senior vice president of licensing and chief of strategic development and marketing. Simon will oversee HFA's licensing, marketing, business and strategic development activities. He joins HFA today and will report directly to Churgin.
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New York - The Harry Fox Agency (HFA), a U.S. music rights licensing organization, announced that it has signed a lyrics licensing agreement with LyricFind, a website that publishes song lyrics. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the terms, music publishers can participate on an opt-in basis and will be able to add, review and edit lyrics on LyricFind's database. HFA said the service will be offered to publishers on a commission-free basis, waiving its usual 6.75% cut of royalties.
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The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), the leading mechanical rights agency in the U.S., represents over 27,000 publishers. Over time, some of them change their addresses and forget to provide forwarding information. While HFA does their best to track them down, there are some that they have been unable to reach. HFA has asked ASCAP for your help. Please take a moment of your time to go to www.harryfox.com/publisher/infoUpdate.html and let HFA know if you can provide any information that would help to locate any of the entities on the site.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- Delta Entertainment Corporation, an international independent music and video company, and licensing agent The Harry Fox Agency (HFA) reached a settlement in a two-year royalties payment dispute, says A. Barry Cappello, attorney for Delta. Terms of the confidential settlement were not disclosed. (Delta Entertainment Corporation v. The Harry Fox Agency, CV-01-07376 TJH). Final settlement documents were signed this week.
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The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. provides an information source, clearing house and monitoring service for licensing musical copyrights, and acts as licensing agent for more than 27,000 music publisher principals, who in turn represent the interests of more than 160,000 songwriters. Besides the core business functions of licensing, collections, and distribution of royalties, HFA conducts periodic record company and other user audits on behalf of its principals. HFA is the licensing affiliate of the National Music Publishers' Association.
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