Our Story

100 Years of Rights Management Innovation

The Harry Fox Agency (HFA), established in 1927, America’s premiere mechanical licensing institution and has led the industry with innovative mechanical rights management solutions for music creators and publishers. Our mission is to provide to our partners timely, efficient mechanical rights management and royalty distribution services while meeting the changing mechanical needs of music distributors, songwriters and publishers.

Today, as the gold-standard in rights management, HFA represents nearly 50,000 affiliated publishers and licenses more than 2,500 record labels. With its continued growth, HFA remains home to the world’s largest, most authoritative database of musical works linked to recordings. In addition, our Songfile® service supports schools, religious institutions, indie artists and record labels who need to license cover songs.