Harry Fox Agency

- That's who collects for performances, but you'll need a different company to collect those mechanical royalties, and that's the Harry Fox Agency. The Harry Fox Agency is the premier music publisher agent for mechanical licensing in the United States. Those are the folks that collect all that money from the record label. The Harry Fox Agency issues mechanical license for all the products manufactured and distributed here in the United States. They issue licenses only to US manufacturers or importers with a US address. That said, the Harry Fox Agency also provides collection and monitoring services to its publishers for music distributed and sold in over 90 territories around the world. They do that through reciprocal agreements with the mechanical rights organizations in those countries. While it's true that record sales have declined substantially over the years, and with it, the amount of mechanical royalties, it's still a huge piece of the music publishing world. So when it comes…