Re: p.s. copyright

[TTova <TTova...>]

hate to be dense, but what is HFA?

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On Dec 30, 2003, at 2:40 AM, SICULAR (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> just comparing a couple more notes on this subject:
>
> for the covers we've recorded, I have not found that each 
> copyright-holding
> company is so easy to get hold of, or that they're particularly 
> interested in
> being contacted by small producers. Steve's informed response is about 
> the Fox
> Agency minimum of 500 paid-up copies for licensing fees, a minimum 
> which he
> points out can be circumvented by not going through Harry Fox. the 
> other (5,000)
> figure was one which I brought up *not* as any kind of minimum number 
> for
> which a per-copy rate would be paid; rather, it was a level below 
> which the
> rights-holder asked to be contacted directly rather than sending 
> producers to the
> Fox Agency. in our case, a run of 1000 was not given any discounts but 
> was
> licensed as 1000 x current statutory rate.
>
> Steve's points about negotiating rates, and paying only for sold &/or 
> promo
> copies rather than produced copies are excellent.  still, at least in 
> my
> limited experience, certain copyright owners don't have any easily 
> accessible pe
> rmissions department. in fact, if my memory serves, sometimes all they 
> have is a
> weblink to HFA.  any more comments are quite welcome on this -- inside 
> info is
> hard to get!!
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