Re: [Harp-L] copyright issues and permission



If your cover is longer than 5 min, the fee structure is a bit different. There is a different base rate, then an additional rate per minute over 5, and that determines your rate per copy. Last time I did this was about 2 yrs ago, so YMMV if they've changed policy since then. But "mechanical licenses" are what you want for CDs and "download licenses" are what you want if you want to sell them digitally. And if you want to do a mix of both, you have to buy separate licenses (eg 500 mechanical licenses AND 500 download licenses, not just 500 licenses for both as they are exclusive). This may have already been mentioned by somebody, I forget, sorry for duplicating if so.

It seems confusing, but HFA makes it pretty easy and their documentation is pretty good.

Seth

On 03/31/2010 03:30 PM, Tom Ball wrote:

Garry Hodgson wrote: i'm confused. i was just on harryfox.com last night, and for two songs on 1000 cd's it came to almost $700. what am i missing? ------------ Garry, I think you might have requested info on the wrong kind of license. If you are making physical CDs, what you want is a "mechanical license." Harry Fox charges the "statutory rate" which is currently 9.1 cents per song, per CD. So two songs on 1000 CDs would be $182.

What's more, if you think you may not sell (or otherwise distribute)
them all, you can prepay on 500 units (or even less, I think...) Then,
if/when you do exceed 500 you can pay on the overage.

good luck,
Tom Ball




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