# Performing Rights License Management

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/hq0516fy250009

- Solicitation number: HQ0516-FY-25-0009
- Notice type: Sources sought
- Status: Closed. Deadline was May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Media Activity (Dma)
- Contracting office: HQ Defense Media Activity (HQ0516)
- NAICS: 928120 International Affairs
- Place of performance: Riverside, California
- County: Riverside County (FIPS 06065). https://abierto.us/counties/riverside-county-ca-06065
- City: Riverside. https://abierto.us/cities/riverside-ca-0662000
- First posted: April 25, 2025
- Last posted: April 25, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/48dfb01fc56f4cd68234bba29f01726e/view

## Description

The purpose of this Sources Sought is to gather information from industry partners to identify a unified contract solution to obtain, maintain and manage performing rights licenses for AFN to broadcast literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works within the countries of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal. Maintaining broadcast usage rights is required through the performing rights societies of the signatory countries under the Berne Convention. All signatory nations, including the US must pay a fee to the in-country organization established to collect royalties for the right to perform commercial works in that country. The specific performing rights organizatrions are:

Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA), Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE), Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM), Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), and Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA).

## Publications

- April 25, 2025: Sources sought, due May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT. Notice 48dfb01fc56f4cd68234bba29f01726e. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/48dfb01fc56f4cd68234bba29f01726e/view

## Points of contact

- Anthony Leander, anthony.m.leander.ctr@mail.mil
- Nathan Mack, nathan.e.mack.civ@mail.mil

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