Harry Fox Agency

Harry Fox Agency
AbbreviationHFA
Formation1927; 97 years ago (1927)
TypeProfit
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Parent organization
The Blackstone Group
Websitehttps://www.harryfox.com/
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The Harry Fox Agency (HFA) is a provider of rights management and collector and distributor of mechanical license fees on behalf of music publishers in the United States. HFA has over 48,000 music publishing clients and issues the largest number of licenses for physical and digital formats of music.[1] It was founded in 1927 by the National Music Publishers Association.[2] The agency was sold to performing rights organization SESAC in 2015,[3] which was itself acquired by The Blackstone Group in 2017.[4]

  1. ^ "NMPA". NMPA. Archived from the original on 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
  2. ^ Al Kohn; Bob Kohn (2010). Kohn on Music Licensing. Aspen Publishers. p. 809. ISBN 978-0-7355-9090-8.
  3. ^ SESAC Buys the Harry Fox Agency Ed Christman, Billboard, July 7, 2015
  4. ^ Blackstone’s Latest Move Has the Look of a Hit Jennifer Saba, New York Times, January 5, 2017