Sesac, the privately-owned Nashville-based performance rights society, has agreed to buy from the National Music Publishers’ Association its mechanical rights affiliate Harry Fox Agency.

The news, first reported by the New York Times, will put for the first time under the same licensing umbrella performance and mechanical rights. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The NMPA has owned Harry Fox since its creation in 1927 and its CEO David Israelite had confirmed to Music Week earlier this year that ...