Photo: Dae Bogan | COMBO’s next monthly Zoom event will feature guest speaker Dae Bogan of the Mechanical Licensing Collective. The meeting will be held on Monday, October 22nd starting at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Titled “Songwriters, Are You Getting All Your Streaming Money?”, the talk will help if you are an independent songwriter and your music is streaming, IT’S TIME TO JOIN THE MLC AND GET PAID FOR THOSE PLAYS!
There are several MEMBER TOOLS within The MLC Portal to help you manage your song data so you can collect your royalties. Here is a video to help you understand what the MLC will do for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxk_KL_zUk&utm_source=musicconnection&utm_medium=email
What is The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC)?
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is a nonprofit organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office pursuant to the historic Music Modernization Act of 2018. In January 2021, The MLC began administering blanket mechanical licenses to eligible streaming and download services (digital service providers or DSPs) in the United States. The MLC collects the royalties due under those licenses from the DSPs and pay songwriters, composers, lyricists, and music publishers.
The MLC has built a publicly accessible musical works database, as well as The MLC Portal that creators and music publishers can use to submit and maintain their musical works data. These tools will help ensure that creators and music publishers are paid properly.
More about Dae Bogan: Mr. Bogan serves as Head of Third-Party Partnerships for The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC), where he leads The MLC’s strategy for engaging third-party entities to support initiatives in rights administration, data management, operations, and membership services.
A passionate music creators’ rights advocate who enjoys exploring the global music rights landscape through the lens of business and technology, Bogan is also an adjunct lecturer at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. In this role, Bogan develops and teaches the music industry entrepreneurship course for which he was recognized in Billboard’s “The 15 Best Music Business Schools In 2017.”
Prior to joining The MLC and teaching at UCLA,Bogan’s passion for innovation at the intersection of music and technology led him to found three companies: music rights administration technology company TuneRegistry, unclaimed music royalties and licenses search engine RoyaltyClaim, and in-store music video network Maven Promo. Each of these companies has since been acquired.
Early in his career, Bogan worked directly and more creatively with recording artists, songwriters, music producers, and DJs as the owner-operator of an independent record label, a music publishing company, and a boutique artist management firm before pivoting into technology in 2012.
Daeholds an MA in Music Industry Administration with a focus on music publishing and copyright administration from California State University, Northridge and a BA in sociology from the University of California. He resides in Los Angeles, California where he organizes SoCal Music Industry Professionals, an informal networking community of music industry professionals who live in Southern California.
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Songwriters, Are You Getting All Your Streaming Money? COMBO’S Next Info Event!
