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What Jody said.

SMH.

Ray, it's not 1987 anymore.

And frankly, for the record, selling forms to people here on a floppy that you admit "Sometime back I 'borrowed' a mechanical license form from Harry Fox" and rewrote is kind of desperate sounding. Do you really need Donna's $20.00 to send them to her? Have you ever heard of attaching them to an email? After all, you must have them in digital form already if you can put them on a floppy disk, and you registered here so I know you have email and obviously you have a working computer still, so why waste the money and effort to mail it on a disk that most computers made since early this century don't even use anymore without an add on drive. For that matter few devices even have drives for any media anymore outside of USB ports which are likely to be gone soon as well. And why would you want to charge Donna money for something that would only cost you a minute of your time to send her? After all, I know you understand free stuff being the longest tenured member here who has never tossed in a few bucks to help with the costs of this site, so why would you be a hypocrite with the friendly Donna Duchess, just to needlessly shake her down for a few bucks? Not very gentlemanly of you.

Folks, I would always defer to Jody and John here for current day issues concerning royalties since they both regularly license and sell music on all types of platforms around the world. It doesn't mean they are never wrong, all humans are sometimes, but they offer up what they know freely and without the shipping and handling fees. There was a time when I kept up with all of it, but the past few years I've let off that particular gas pedal until I need to know something, then I research and get the most up to date info from people who know, which includes John and Jody who deal with this stuff daily.

I can say that there was a time when Ray would have been a good resource as I recall a small publishing business I believe he was involved in once offered me publishing contracts on two of my songs I wrote when I was 13. Five Roses Publishing was the name and I found them in a book I would later write for called the "Songwriter's Market." My how 40 years have flown since I wrote those songs and sent them in years later when I came across that book, though I think it was the other guy I dealt with, I still have the correspondence and contracts somewhere in a box in storage. But I digress. Maybe it was a different Ray or a different "Five Roses" back then out of Georgia.

Ah, memories.

Brian