Pandora Moves to Invalidate the MLC’s Entire Ability to Sue on Copyright Grounds — As a Simple Royalty Dispute Morphs Into a Far More Serious Battle Both…
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Spotify Fires Back Against the MLC’s Amended Bundling Lawsuit, Says the New Arguments Are ‘Unsupportable by the Facts’ It turns out Spotify isn’t happy about facing the…
Duplicate Works, Diverted Royalties, and What the MLC Isn’t Catching The first in a multi-part investigation into how duplicate registrations, orphan ISRC policies, and manual-only dispute handling…
Only 17% of Music Creator College Students Are Familiar With The MLC, Survey Finds MusicAnswers has spent two years conducting a survey of college student music creators…
Only 17% of Music Creator College Students Are Familiar With The MLC, Survey Finds MusicAnswers has spent two years conducting a survey of college student music creators…
Spotify Wins Big Against the MLC. But Will They Win This War? Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for…
MLC Fires Back Against Spotify Dismissal Push in Unpaid-Royalties Lawsuit, Doubles Down on Anti-Bundling Arguments At August’s end, Spotify moved to dismiss the “nonsensical” unpaid-royalties lawsuit filed…
Spotify Urges MLC Lawsuit Dismissal, Defends Bundling Frenzy: ‘Books Are Not Music, and Audiobook Streaming Is Not MusicStreaming’ Spotify has officially shed light on its dismissal arguments…
The MLC Has a Legal Battle on Its Hands: Pandora Fires Back Against ‘Misguided’ Royalties Lawsuit The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) officially has a legal battle on…
The CEO of Non-Profit MLC Bags $700,000 Salary In 2022 as CFO Annual Compensation Tops $500,000, Tax Disclosures Show Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) CEO Kris Ahrend earned…
Following ‘Black Box’ Scrutiny, the MLC Taps Jaxsta, Salt, Pex, and Others to Help Match Royalties The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has officially announced a “Supplemental Matching…
The MLC Has Distributed Over $1.5 Billion in Royalties to Members — ‘We’ve Met Every Milestone Set by Congress’ In its third Annual Membership Meeting last week,…