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Billboard: A State-by-State Resource Guide for Music Professionals Who Need Help During Coronavirus Crisis
**In an effort to share important information with music industry professionals, The MLC is...
Music Ally: Publishing and rights: ‘Everybody needs to play ball in order for this tech to work’
“You can choose to grow one copyright at a time. That’s going to take a really, really long time....
Music Row: Mechanical Licensing Collective Names Kris Ahrend As CEO
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has named industry executive Kris Ahrend as the...
Billboard Magazine: Mechanical Licensing Collective Names New CEO
Nashville music exec Kris Ahrend will run the organization created under the 2018 Music...
Variety: The Biggest Music Business Stories of the Decade
The last ten years have been among the music industry’s most celebratory, and at the same time, the...
Music Business Worldwide: MLC Hires Richard Thompson as Chief Information Officer and Selects Partners to Develop Data Portal
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC) has appointed former Digital Data Exchange (DDEX)...
Music Ally: MLC confirms data partners and identity of its CIO
Launch-funding secured, the US’ new Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is continuing to build...
Tennessean: How Music Publishers Can Prepare for Mechanical Licensing Collective Database
Now that the U.S. Copyright Office has designated the NMPA, NSAI, and SONA-backed Mechanical...
HypeBot: What Every Songwriter Needs To Know About The Music Licensing Collective
A major component of the recently passed Music Modernization Act is a new entity known as the Music...
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