Harry Fox Agency and RightsFlow Enter Download Licensing Arrangement

The Harry Fox Agency (HFA), which represents almost 35,000 music publishers, and RightsFlow, a provider of licensing and royalty services, have officially entered a licensing arrangement for full-length, permanent digital downloads.

“This arrangement illustrates how HFA provides business solutions that facilitate the distribution of music by enabling RightsFlow to act as a licensee on behalf of its clients,” said Gary Churgin, President and CEO of HFA. “Rightsflow will use HFA’s bulk licensing system to handle mechanical licensing, ensuring that publishers and songwriters are properly compensated under U.S. law.”

HFA is an early adopter to the music revolution when they began offering bulk digital download licensing in 2002. HFA represents 1.9 million songs that are available for mechanical licensing within the U.S. Under American Copyright Law, mechanical licenses are required for music to be distributed through online music services. The current U.S. statutory mechanical rate is 9.1¢ for songs five minutes or less and 1.75¢ per minute for songs over five minutes.

OrbLive - Live TV on your iPhone

Orb Networks has announced a new service that streams live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. They've optimized media streaming and claim it works great over WiFi, AT&T, O2, and Vodafone.

I'd like to see this. Though I love my iPhone, the Edge network bites. I feel like I have a Ferrari (my iPhone) stuck on the 405 at rush hour whenever I connect to it.

My two cents. YMMV.