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The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA) provides mechanical licensing services. The company offers royalties collection and distribution, online song search, copyright protection, and rate negotiation services. HFA was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in New York City. The company operates as a subsidiary of National Music Publisher’s Association (NMPA).
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Established in 1927 by the National Music Publishers Association, the Harry Fox Agency represents over 27,000 U.S. music publishers for their mechanical licensing needs, issuing licenses and collecting and distributing royalties. HFA ... provides collection and monitoring services to its U.S. publisher clients for music distributed and sold in over 75 territories around the world. For more information about HFA, or to become an affiliate publisher or a licensee, click here.
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The Harry Fox Agency issues mechanical and synchronization licenses for many copyrighted musical compositions. They collect royalties from the sale of CDs and distribute the money to the licensed copyright holders. Many publishers use Harry Fox as a collection agency, while others handle their own licensing and collections.
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Web-based music company GoodNoise has been granted a licence to deliver songs digitally in the MP3 format by the Harry Fox Agency (HFA), the licensing arm of the National Music Publishers' Association. The move is a major step in the legitimisation of MP3, loathed by the big record labels yet loved by Internet-based music fans and firms alike. Under the licence, the number of songs downloaded from GoodNoise and affiliated sites will be regularly totalled and, on the basis of that figure, a so-called 'mechanical licence' fee will be paid to the HFA a large proportion of which will then be passed on to publisher of those songs. A mechanical licence specifically permits the duplication of music onto a physical medium (the current legislation counts digital delivery as physical duplication), as opposed to granting a public playback licence. Essentially, the agreement between the HFA and GoodNoise establishes that fact the MP3 is as valid a music delivery mechanism as CD, LP and cassette. GoodNoise says it was already paying mechanical licence fees to its 15,000-odd music publishers on an individual basis -- what's important about the new deal is that it plugs GoodNoise, and ... MP3, into a major part of the mainstream music industry.
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Castellucci's experience includes executive positions with Harry Fox Agency, Castel Management, Inc., and Warner/Chappell Music Publishing, as well as his own consulting firm. Miles, a respected jazz musician, has produced more than 30 CDs for such noted artists as George Benson, Anita Baker and David Sanborn, among others. He won a Grammy in 2000 for producing "She Walks This Earth" by Sting, which won Best Male Pop Vocal. He has been nominated for an Emmy and four additional Grammys, most recently in 2004 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his production of the album "Chasing Shadows" by Herb Albert.
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Songs of Hope IV presenting sponsors include Universal Music Publishing Group, ASCAP, Peermusic, Warner Chappell, Famous Music, EMI Music Publishing, Harry Fox Agency and National Association of Music Publishers. Affiliate sponsors include APM Music, BMG Music Publishing, BMI, Windswept, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
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