Let the Games Begin: Dueling MLC Submissions Filed With the U.S. Copyright Office

Talk to National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) president David Israelite, and he’ll tell you this shouldn’t be a contest.

But the NMPA, which represents major publishers like Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell, and Universal Music Publishing Group, is now looking at a serious face-off to lead the Mechanical Licensing Collective, or MLC, which is mandated by the recently-passed Music Modernization Act.

On Thursday evening, the U.S. Copyright Office received two bids to run the MLC.

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