ASCAP: Los Angeles
7920 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 213-883-1000 (Tel.) www.ascap.com
ASCAP: New York
One Lincoln Plaza New York, NY 10023 212-595-3050 (Tel.) www.ascap.com
BMI: Los Angeles
8730 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90069 310-659-9109 (Tel.) www.bmi.com
BMI: New York
320 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 212-586-2000 (Tel.) www.bmi.com
SESAC
10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 212-586-3450 (Tel.) www.sesac.com The ASCAP and BMI song title databases allows researchers to search by song, title, songwriter or publisher for information on songs and songwriters registered with these performing rights societies. If you don’t know which society a writer belongs to, look at the liner notes that accompanied the CD or cassette. If a songwriter isn’t registered with ASCAP, there’s an excellent chance he or she is affiliated with BMI. If all else fails, contact SESAC.
American Federation of Musicians (AF of M)
1501 Broadway New York, NY 10036 212-869-1330 (Tel.) www.afm.org
SoundExchange
1121 14th St. NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 E-mail:info@soundexchange.com www.soundexchange.com
Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA)
HFA licenses musical compositions for use on records, tapes, CDS and computer chips. It also licenses musical compositions for use in audio/visual works including motion pictures, television programs, commercials and multi-media. HFA maintains a searchable database of 2 million songs called www.songfile.com
Search U.S. Copyright Office Records
(Post 1977) A free online service of the United States Copyright Office. https://www.copyright.gov/rrc/
Search U.S. Copyright Renewal Database
(1923 – 1963) A free online service of Stanford University. Note: The database includes ONLY book renewals. https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals?forward=home
Authors Publishers Marketplace
https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/pm/search Publishers Marketplace has an excellent searchable database of agents, editors, publishers, packagers and writers
The Authors Registry
31 East 28th Street New York, NY 10016 212-563-6920 (Tel.) staff@authorsregistry.org www.authorsregistry.org The Authors Registry maintains an extensive directory of authors, with contact addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses.
Vital Records Information
(United States) This website contains information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States. The site has convenient links to online versions of the White Pages and Yellow Pages. www.vitalrec.com
Writers Guild of America, West, Inc..
8955 Beverly Hills Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90048-2455 310-550-1000 (Tel.) www.wga.org.
SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
National Headquarters Hollywood – National Headquarters 5757 Wilshire Blvd., 7th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90036-3600 (323) 954-1600 Main Switchboard 1-800-SAG-0767 for SAG Members outside Los Angeles www.sag.org
National Music Publishers’ Assoc., Inc.
475 Park Ave. South New York, NY 10016 646-742-1651 (Tel.) www.nmpa.org