DSPs including Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify pay $ 424 million in unique countries for … [+]
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The Collective Licensing Collective has received a total of $ 424.38 million in unparalleled historical realms from digital service providers, along with corresponding data reports identifying usage related to those countries.
Twenty digital service providers – including Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google
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, Pandora and Spotify – unique historical kingdoms donated to the Consortium, declared by the U.S. Charter of Rights in July 2019 under the Music Renewal Act 2018. The MLC is responsible for the new mandatory blanket license administered for use. of music works with digital music services.
“It’s a big day, this is what we’ve all been waiting for,” said Michelle Lewis, executive director of North American Songwriters (SONA), who says the sum “More than we expected.”
The largest nations, by long shot, were paid out by Apple Music, at $ 163.34 million, followed by Spotify at $ 153.23 million. Followed by Amazon Music at $ 42.74 million, Google at $ 32.86 million, Pandora at $ 12.36 million, Soundcloud $ 10.17 million, Tidal $ 6.8 million and iHeartRadio $ 1.34 million.
The rest of the list goes around as follows: Deezer SA $ 998,338, AudioMack $ 490,1243, LiveXLive $ 400,000, Hoopla $ 278,991, Qobuz $ 106,893, GTL $ 98,345, Wolfgang’s $ 18,409, Mixcloud $ 13,650, WeavRun $ 12.77 $ $ $ 7, $ 7.87 $ $ $ 7, $ 7.87 $ $ $ 7, $ 7.87.
In addition to payments, the DSPs delivered more than 1,800 data files, containing more than 1.3 terabytes and 9 billion lines of data. The MLC is now reviewing and analyzing the data to find and pay the right copyright owners. That’s an easy task.
“It’s a lot of work,” says Lewis. “The idea is to bring that large number down as low as possible and match as much as we can, and that’s going to take an industry-wide effort, an educational ton of writers. songs and publishers to really use the public database and the application process. ”
Kay Hanley, SONA’s co-director, chairs the MLC’s External Audit Committee, which oversees the distribution of the fund.
This cash transfer represents a month-long effort on the part of the participating MLC and DSPs to develop and implement the specifications for these usage reports.
The MLC will provide additional information on unique historical kingdoms on a newly created page on its website, “Historical Unmatched Royalties.”