Press Release
| UPDATE: Limited Quantity Licenses Available Online From The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. |
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New York, NY: Gary L. Churgin, President & CEO of the Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA) today announced that schools, churches, community groups and other low-volume producers of music CD’s or cassettes can now easily and quickly obtain a "limited quantity" license via the Internet at NMPA/HFA’s website www.SongFile.com. The license allows for the production of a minimum of 500 units to a maximum of 2,500 units for a fee ranging from $37.75 up to $188.75 (based on the current statutory mechanical rate). All processing is done automatically online. Confirmations by e-mail are issued immediately and licenses follow via e-mail to the licensee within forty-eight hours. E-mail support is available by contacting HFA at hfalicensingsupport@songfile.com. Personal support is available through the HFA Client Relations Department at 212-834-0100. "The SongFile website makes use of a powerful, user-friendly search engine that enables the user to quickly locate any of the 300,000 songs listed in the HFA database," stated Edward Murphy, NMPA President & CEO. "And within minutes, the small producer can now easily obtain licensing for limited productions." The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. is the licensing subsidiary of the National Music Publishers' Association, Inc. It provides an information source, clearing house and monitoring service for licensing musical copyrights, and represents more than 23,000 music publishers and 150,000 songwriters. |
