The music industry can count the MLC as another major contributor to the multi-billion-dollar ‘black box’ of unpaid royalties. Earlier this week, an anonymous source reached out with word of a massive tranche of owed-but-unpaid mechanical royalty compensation, as well as adjacent concerns about the operations of the Mechanical Licensing Collective. The organization said in October of 2022 that it had distributed $700 million to members.
Source: MLC ‘Unmatched Royalties’ Hit $561MM in 2021, Document Shows