TheMLC

Issues blanket mechanical licenses for qualified streaming services in the US such as Spotify, Apple Music etc.

Official website: themlc.com

Here be dragons!

TheMLC is notorious for bad, incorrect data. Their entire job is to use data to distribute royalties to the right people, so if they have bad data, that is really news. Read more about it here:

• Good data in Garbage Out: The MLC/HFA Data Disaster – The Trichordist
• MLC “ReUp” Proceeding Highlights Ownership Issues for Your Musical Works Database When You Correct To Collect? – The Trichordist .

See Also

• Wikipedia - Mechanical Licensing Collective

Services

• The MLC Public Work Search: Publicly accessible database
• DURP in TheMLC