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Setlist: Will data developments get songwriters paid?

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 3 October 2022

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including songs rights data announcements that saw PRS For Music in the UK set out plans to launch a new online portal that will provide easy access to key data linked to the songs catalogue it represents and American collecting society MLC launch a new tool that allows music distributors to easily access data on unclaimed mechanical royalties in the US for over two million recordings, plus Pusha T’s latest entry into the world of corporate diss tracks.

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• PRS announces plans for new portal offering easy access to song rights data
• MLC launches unmatched royalty identification tool
• Pusha T drops second McDonald’s diss track

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