As we venture deeper into 2025, monumental strides have been made in the realm of music rights management. This post delves into the evolving partnership between two industry stalwarts – HFA and LyricFind. Their journey began in 2006, and now, nearly two decades later, they are expanding their collaborative efforts. The focus is to provide comprehensive rights management services, catering to a wider audience in more languages and territories. LyricFind is shifting its primary rights management responsibilities to Slingshot, HFA’s dedicated service. This post offers a detailed look at this industry development, underscoring how it aims to simplify licensing and royalty processes, ensuring a seamless licensing experience for clients worldwide.
Expanded Collaboration between HFA and LyricFind
HFA, the music industry’s foremost provider of rights management services, and LyricFind, a worldwide leader in lyric solutions, have expanded a long-standing licensing services arrangement to include comprehensive rights management.
The Evolution of the Partnership
HFA and LyricFind began their relationship in 2006 with a lyrics licensing services agreement. Over the course of nearly two decades, the relationship has grown. The recent licensing services agreement renewal marks the third time HFA has been engaged to provide licensing services for LyricFind.
LyricFind’s Growing Global Footprint
LyricFind, based in Toronto, Canada, has millions of licensed tracks from over 3,000 major and independent music publishers and provides lyric services to hundreds of clients in seven languages and 30 territories, with more territories -on-bet” target=”_blank”> added soon. LyricFind previously handled all of its licensing administration in-house but is now shifting primary rights management responsibilities to Slingshot, HFA’s rights management service.
Slingshot: Simplifying Licensing and Royalties
Slingshot is designed to simplify the licensing and royalty process so that clients can focus on their core . LyricFind will rely upon Slingshot, powered by HFA’s sophisticated technology platforms and extensive publishing relationships, to secure lyric rights from publishers for distribution of lyrics in U.S. and ex-U.S. territories.
Comprehensive Solution for LyricFind
Additionally, Slingshot will provide a comprehensive solution to LyricFind for its licensing, data management, royalty processing and payment needs to ensure a seamless licensing experience.
Leadership Perspectives
“We are delighted to broaden our enduring relationship with LyricFind to support them as they expand their services to better meet the needs of services that seek a lawful lyrics solution,” said Michael Simon, President and CEO of HFA.”HFA has been an invaluable partner for LyricFind since we first started,” said Darryl Ballantyne, CEO and Founder of LyricFind. “As we add languages, countries, and significantly larger clients and traffic, it made perfect sense to expand our relationship with HFA as well.”
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