Inside the Mechanical Licensing Collective with CEO Kris Ahrend
Music Tectonics
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The Challenge of Managing Mechanical Rights in the Music Business
The MLC administers a set of royalties that I do when songs are streamed on digital services like Spotify and Apple Music, and we pay those royalties to the songwriters and music publishers. The challenge really stems from two things: First, when a fan listens to music on a streaming service or any digital service, they generally do so by selecting a specific sound recording. That makes it challenging for folks like the MLC who pay royalties on the song side of the business because we've essentially got to make a connection between the sound recording that was streamed and the song that that sound recording features.
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