What is Harry Fox?
This is an organization that a publisher can hire to issue Mechanical licenses and collect the fees for the use of the compositions in audio recordings. Harry Fox takes an administrative fee from the revenue generated for its services. A publisher can also choose to handle the Mechanical licenses themselves. What are Performance Royalties? When a song is broadcast on radio, television, live event in a concert hall, or even in a restaurant (in some countries internet and theater performances also count), US performance rights organizations such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC (each country has its own organization) collect annual fees from the “broadcaster” for the “performance” or use of the compositions, and then distribute the revenue to the writers and publishers (50% of the fee going to each). Each production is required to submit a cue sheet outlining the use of all of the songs to the PRO. The PRO has their own way of calculating the fee owed to the writers and publishers based on the cu
