Europe + United Kingdom
Apple, Amazon, and Spotify: direct collection of mechanical royalties and both the songwriter’s and publisher’s shares of public performance for covered streaming uses.
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Direct collection where it matters.
Choose the services, rights, and territories you want covered. Our direct agreements collect our clients’ royalties; coverage varies by service. U.S. digital mechanical royalties are collected through the MLC.
United States
The MLC for compulsory digital mechanicals, plus direct licenses including Meta, TouchTunes, Spotify audiovisual content and more.
Canada
Apple, Amazon and Spotify mechanical royalties, with additional collection paths depending on right and service.
Worldwide coverage
YouTube (excluding Argentina), TikTok, Deezer, Peloton, LyricFind, Musixmatch and Mood Media/PlayNetwork.
Additional direct coverage
Apple Fitness and Apple Lyrics, with availability varying by service, right and territory.
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Mechanical Licensing Collective
AVERAGE ADDITIONAL U.S. MECHANICAL ROYALTIES COLLECTED*
+20%
The MLC receives the money. We make sure it reaches your songwriters.
In the United States, digital services pay streaming mechanical royalties into the MLC. The money must be matched and claimed correctly. If it is not, it can be distributed to others—including Sony, Universal, Warner and others—based on their market share, and it will be gone for good.
Word Collections registers and maintains your works and works directly with the MLC. Jacobi, our sound-recording identification system, identifies every known recording embodying each musical work. Concello, built specifically to audit and monitor the MLC, tracks every work and ownership share we submit, confirms what the MLC registered and audits whether each identified recording is being paid.
The MLC can pay the same recording from Apple while failing to pay it from Spotify or another service. We find these service-by-service holes, correct the data and claims, recover current, historical and unmatched royalties, then audit and repeat.
*Based on current comparative results. Results vary by catalog.
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