Guest speaker Ann Blonston of AirShow Mastering will join us on Monday, September 27th at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom for “Why YOU Need SoundExchange”, an entity that collects royalties for you from other services like Spotify, CDBaby, iTunes, and more. The program will be hosted by COMBO Member Jamie Krutz and will feature guest speakers Ann Blonston and a representative from the Mechanical Licensing Collective – see press below:
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The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) can help.
Digital audio mechanical royalties – like performance royalties – can be an important part of any songwriter’s overall income, and The MLC’s mission is to make sure independent (or “self-administered”) songwriters just like you get paid the mechanical royalties they have earned.
Established by the historic Music Modernization Act of 2018, The MLC exclusively administers a new blanket license to Digital Service Providers (DSPs) that covers the use of all the music available on their platforms. Each month, The MLC collects mechanical royalties from DSPs and distributes those royalties to rightsholders. Since April, The MLC has paid out more than $130 million in mechanical royalties to its members, including thousands of songwriters. In order to get your monthly mechanical royalties, you must become a member of The MLC.
An MLC membership is FREE – by law, all services are provided by The MLC completely free of charge – and it’s easy to join through “Connect to Collect,” the process whereby you connect with The MLC so you can collect any mechanical royalties owed to you:
https://www.themlc.com/resources?utm_source=musicconnection&utm_medium=email
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COMBO Meetings are FREE and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Here are the Zoom details. If you don’t “do Zoom”, you can call in on one of the phone lines to join us as well.
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COMBO’s Next General Meeting Monday, September 27th at 7:00 p.m. on Collecting Your Royalties from Streaming Services
