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Skip to main content Currently Reading $424 Million Up for Grabs as Music Streaming Services Fill MLC s Black Box With Unmatched Royalty Payments Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Mechanical Licensing Collectiveannounced Tuesday that it has received a total of $424,384,787 in accrued historical unmatched royalties from Spotify, Apple Music and other digital service providers, along with corresponding data reports that identify the usage related to these royalties. In other words, some songwriters and publishers will be receiving a windfall once the MLC reviews and analyzes the data to pay the copyright holders the MLC anticipates sending out its first royalty payments and statements in April of 2021 ....
How Streaming Services Are Telling a Different Love Story With Taylor Swift s Re-Recorded Version Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Taylor Swift’s campaign to re-record her first six albums the rights to which she feels were unfairly sold to a group of investors led by Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun in 2019 bore its first fruit on Thursday night as she dropped a new version of “Love Story,” the song that was in many ways her introduction to the world. Swift’s motivation in re-recording her first six albums is about ownership of her creative work, a crusade that she has said she hopes will inspire other artists to rail against a music industry that in many ways has been anything but artist-friendly. Re-recordings are hardly a new phenomenon: many artists, from multiplatinum pop-metal quintet Def Leppard to ‘80s alt-rockers the Chameleons, have re-recorded songs from their catalogs in order to create a new master recording that they (o ....