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Congress Members Call on Biden to Investigate Live Nation

Five members of Congress sent a letter to members of the Biden administration on Monday (April 19) asking them to investigate Live Nation’s “potentially unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive practices.” In the letter addressed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Trade Commission acting chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Jan […]

MLC Collects $40M for January, Makes First Rights Holders Payments

On Friday, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), which officially launched Jan. 1, made its first distribution of mechanical royalties to rights holders for the month of January, paying out $24 million out of about $40 million collected from digital services. “The completion of The MLC’s first monthly processing of royalties and the payment of more […]