It’s gearing up to be a busy fall! We look forward to connecting with more of you at upcoming events around the country. Be sure to check out the list of industry events at the end of this newsletter to see where we’ll be.

In this Quarter Note, we share some recent milestones, along with an overview of The MLC’s role in addressing overclaims and disputes. We’re also excited to tell you about our new Blanket Royalties Dashboard, as well as our latest educational videos. 

As of the September 2025 distribution, The MLC has distributed more than $227 million — or more than 57 percent — of the approximately $397 million in previously unmatched historical royalties that DSPs transferred to us in 2021. The following graphic shows the total amount of historical royalties that we have been able to distribute so far, broken down by rate period.

These percentages will continue to improve as we process the remaining unmatched historical royalties from the Phono 3 rate period while continuing to reprocess the remaining royalties from all three rate periods.

You can track the progress we’ve made so far distributing historical unmatched royalties by accessing our dynamic historical royalties dashboard.

The MLC currently maintains a database of nearly 50 million works. Thanks to the visibility into our song data, along with our ongoing outreach efforts, we have received a significant number of new works registrations from collective management organizations (CMOs, or “societies”) based outside the U.S.

Sometimes, these new claims conflict with existing claims submitted by U.S.-based publishers or administrators. When this happens, The MLC follows its Dispute Policy to address — and help facilitate the resolution of — these conflicts, just like it does with any other type of conflict. For more details on why these conflicts occur and how to prevent or resolve them, click here.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched a new Blanket Royalties Dashboard, which offers a clear and up-to-date view of the blanket mechanical royalties reported to us by the DSPs that operate under the blanket license we administer. You’ll find cumulative data starting from January 2021, when The MLC first began administering these royalties. The dashboard has four tabs you can click through to see various breakdowns of the total royalty pools DSPs have reported to The MLC, including how much of the pools The MLC has collected, matched, distributed, and more. To see the new dashboard, click here:

September 30: Music Biz Roadshow Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)

October 7-10: IMPF Global Music Summit (Palma de Mallorca, ES)

October 13: Music Ally Publishing Summit (London, UK)

October 14-17: Mondo.NYC 2025 Business Conference & Artist Showcase (New York, NY)

October 24-27: American Songwriter's Between The Lines Songwriting Camp (Nashville, TN)

October 28-30: NOLA MusiCon 2025 (New Orleans, LA)

October 29-November 2: Besla 45th Annual Conference (Rio Grande, PR)

October 30-November 1: The College Music Society 68th National Conference (Spokane, WA)

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