What are "Mechanical rights?"
A mechanical right is the right to reproduce and distribute a piece of music onto
CDs, DVDs, records, tapes, ringtones, digital downloads, interactive streams, and
etc. Every time a song you’ve written is placed on a CD, downloaded as a digital file
or streamed through services like Spotify, you are owed mechanical royalties.
Organisations such as The Harry Fox Agency in the US issue mechanical rights and
then collect mechanical royalties of behalf of their clients.