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The MLC Teams Up with Data Quality Initiative (DQI) Partners on New Five-Part Webinar Series | Mechanical Licensing Collective

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has announced a new, five-part webinar series that will highlight its Data Quality Initiative (DQI) starting on April 27th. 

Each of the five sessions, hosted by The MLC's Head of Third-Party Partnerships Dae Bogan, will feature one of The MLC’s DQI partners – Vistex, Blokur, Exactuals, Music Data Services and TuneRegistry – presenting their version of the DQI as made available to their customers to showcase its capabilities for checking musical works data in bulk.  

The MLC created the Data Quality Initiative to provide a streamlined way for music publishers, administrators, self-administered songwriters and foreign collective management organizations (CMOs) to compare large schedules of their musical works’ data against The MLC’s data. Through the DQI, The MLC provides participants with reports that highlight the discrepancies between the two sets of data so that they can more easily address those discrepancies and improve the quality of The MLC's data. 

The dates, details and registrations links for the five-part DQI Partner Showcase Series are as follows: 

Showcase #1: Featuring Stephen Carlisle, Vistex Music Team Leader  

April 27 | 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET 

Register Here 

Showcase #2: Featuring Phil Barry, Blokur Founder and CEO 

May 4 | 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET 

Register Here 

Showcase #3: Featuring Chris McMurty, Exactuals Head of Music Product 

May 11 | 1 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. ET 

Register Here 

Showcase #4: Featuring Abby North, Music Data Services CEO 

May 18 | 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET 

Register Here 

Showcase #5: Featuring William Gary, TuneRegistry Manager of Operations  

May 25 | 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET 

Register Here 

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