The Harry fox agency is easy to navigate and license songs. While we only release songs we wrote or public domain songs (for which we own all rights) we would never consider covering a song w/o a license. A properly published song is intellectual property. Whether the owner makes virtually nothing off it or they make millions it is still their property and to cover it it one buys the right. Because it is hard to enforce doesn’t change that.

Several years back I literally stumbled across a glowing review of one of our songs. Unfortunately it was not our recording. A gospel group recorded it and when I contacted them a member said they had tried to reach us. Hmmmmm. We settled on a one time blanket license fee for which we made a charitable donation. It was a weird feeling. Sorta like somebody had stolen my bike!

FWIW, IMHO, etc.,

Be well.

Bud


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