The Music Modernization Act’s Biggest Battle Is Still Ahead

In order to tighten the way money passes to rights-holders, the Copyright Office needs to settle on a number of meticulous decisions such as whether the new collective should take on debt, how or if it should hold reserve funds, how to deal with unclaimed royalties and — perhaps most crucially — how to set up a central database that will ideally tie together all the scattered metadata from recordings, rights management groups and digital service providers.

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