What New Mechanical Licensing Collective Means For Indie Songwriters
The MLC – or Mechanical Licensing Collective – is a new U.S.-based organization tasked with administering mechanical licenses for digital audio. So what does this mean for songwriters and their royalties, and do they still need have traditional publishers?
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What the new Mechanical Licensing Collective means for songwriters
In official music biz terms, the MLC is a new U.S.-based Mechanical Rights Organization (MRO) designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to issue and administer the digital audio mechanical blanket license in accordance with the Music Modernization Act to DSPs in the United States.