Jeff Price, the founder and CEO of global publishing administrator Word Collections, has released an article providing the results of auditing the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) using the MLC’s own publically available data. The results, according to Price, reveal that since the organization’s inception on January 1, 2021, the MLC has not paid out $600 million, or over 25%, of the mechanical royalties it has received from Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, YouTube Music, and other digital services.
Source: Word Collections says 25% of MLC Collection Isn’t Distributed