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Criteria To Obtain Limited Download & Interactive Streaming Licenses
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If your music service is not one of these five types, or you cannot provide all six pieces of information for your quarterly
royalty reports to HFA in a way that can be verified in a royalty compliance examination, you cannot obtain statutory rate
licenses from HFA for these uses.
1. Online music service offering must be one of these five types:
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Standalone Non-Portable Streaming Only
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User can listen to sound recordings only in the form of interactive streams and only from a non-portable device to which such
streams were originally transmitted while device has a live network connection.
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Standalone Non-Portable Mixed Use
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A service where user can listen to sound recordings either in the form of interactive streams or limited downloads, but only
from a non-portable device to which the streams or downloads are originally transmitted.
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Standalone Portable Mixed Use
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A service where the user can listen to sound recordings as interactive streams or limited downloads from a portable device.
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Bundled Services
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A subscription service offering one or more products or services bundled together with without separate pricing for the service
apart from the other bundled products or services.
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Free and Ad-Supported Services
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A service offering free of charge interactive streams and/or limited downloads to the end user.
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