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Mechanicals

  • Phonorecords V: what Spotify, Apple and Amazon want to pay songwriters for 2028 to 2032

    Publishers want a 20% headline streaming mechanical rate for 2028 to 2032. Spotify, Apple, Google and Pandora want to keep 15.35%, and Amazon wants it cut to 13.4%. Meanwhile, a deal on CD, vinyl and download rates, struck mostly by labels and their sister publishers, is being challenged by the independent songwriters it left out.

    Industryvia Copyright Royalty Board, Library of Congress (Federal Register)

  • Your unclaimed mechanicals have a deadline: the MLC starts market-share payouts in 2027

    The Mechanical Licensing Collective plans to start paying out unmatched and unclaimed US streaming mechanicals by market share in 2027, beginning with January 2021 usage. Money that nobody has claimed by then goes to whoever already earns the most. Here is how to register, match and claim before it does.

    Industryvia The Mechanical Licensing Collective

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