Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harry Fox Agency - Unclaimed Funds -Info Needed

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Thank you, Larry. I figured that he'd no idea how the Harry Fox Agency  
worked, and appreciate your clarifying the issue.
 
To make it even more clear...the link at the Harry Fox Agency Site was to  
their own in-house site where they specifically request artists/musicians 
and  friends of... to provide updated addresses/new contact information for  
singer/songwriters since the agency itself is holding the funds and wants to  
release them to the proper owners......here's the link for dpeer to check 
out  the reference:
 
 
_http://www.harryfox.com/public/HelpUsFindPublishers.jsp_ 
(http://www.harryfox.com/public/HelpUsFindPublishers.jsp)  
 
 
click on 'view the list' to see the huge list of names of people  they're 
searching for...ALL of whom have monies being held for them by  HF. 
 
One thought had struck me in looking through those names is - how  often 
might an artist create a spontaneous or unusual name precisely to keep the  
publicity level down at the time....and then promptly forget the name or move  
away and neglect to update their contact info, thereby missing out on  who 
knows how much of their own badly needed funds? I can imagine coming up  
with a name which might be important at the moment  ...perhaps tying in with a 
hit record?...then some years down the road the  reference is long gone from 
anyone's memory. This is such a shame. 
 
 
A 2nd thought was...wouldn't it be nice if they could computerize the  
whole thing a la the 
AFIS (law enforcement fingerprint) set-up to  ensure complete connection 
between an author and his/her work?...but I suppose  that's just a pipe-dream 
on my part.
 
 
I found this link as well which may clear up (or even more confound) what  
the HF Agency does today:
 
 
_http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/harry+fox+agency+licensing_ 
(http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/harry+fox+agency+licensing) 
 
 
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 12
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:57:17 -0700
From: Larry Marks  <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Subject: Harry Fox  Agency - Unclaimed Funds -
Info Needed
To:  harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx


d peer wrote:
> I've seen several email scams  claiming to get you money or property 
that's been left for you in wills,  dispensed by courts, left unclaimed, etc.. 
These
> services are completely  unnecessary because states maintain their own 
service to track these  things.Unclaimed property and lost money!
>    
Ummm.  Elizabeth's message had to do with a very specific service - 
finding  musicians and publishers who are owed money from the licensing 
of music -  not a general money/property scam. That's an appropriate 
service for the  Harry Fox Agency to perform, since that is their 
principal  business.

-LM
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