The tech industry finds this requirement monumentally inconvenient. It used to be that in order to offer recordings of song, the company needed to get a license and it was the COMPANY’S responsibility to do so. The first thing you have to know, if you are a music composer with regularly performed songs, is that the MMA stood hundreds of years of music licensing on its head. The “Mechanical Licensing Collective” is here and it’s open for business, and has been operational as of January 1, 2021. Now that it is 2021, choose your favorite idiom: the “time has come,” “the future is now,” “time for the rubber to hit the road,” and so on and so forth. Keep track of “non-blanket license” activity” 1.Collect the “administrative assessment” charge from the digital music providers.Process claims of ownership by authors and composers.Co-ordinate the identification of the owners of rights in a particular musical work or sound recording.Create and maintain a “musical works database”.Collect and distribute royalties payable. ![]() The biggest is the establishment of a ‘Mechanical Licensing Collective,’ which will apply only to digital music providers, whether the delivery is by download or by streaming. And right now, no one is sure it will work. “The first section is the most complicated, and the most controversial. ![]() In October of 2019, President Trump signed the “Music Modernization Act.” Back then, I wrote: The Ins and Outs, the Good and the Bad, of the Mechanical Licensing Collective
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