Beatdapp to enhance The MLC’s existing streaming fraud detection processes.
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announces a collaboration with Beatdapp, an independent fraud detection company, to complement and enhance The MLC’s existing streaming fraud detection capabilities.
The services offered by Beatdapp will supplement The MLC’s existing internal processes. This collaboration reflects The MLC’s commitment to protecting its Members and supports The MLC’s mission of ensuring songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers receive their mechanical royalties from streaming and download services in the U.S. accurately and on time.
“The MLC is uniquely positioned within the music industry to contribute significantly to addressing streaming fraud,” says Andrew Mitchell, Chief Analytics and Automation Officer at The MLC. “Building on our ongoing efforts, we are proud to be working with Beatdapp to further amplify the many ways The MLC serves its 43,000+ Members.”
“The MLC plays a vital role in the music industry and we’re proud to collaborate with them and enhance their continuous efforts to combat streaming fraud,” says Morgan Hayduk and Andrew Batey, Co-CEOs at Beatdapp. “Beatdapp has built its technology by learning from the best trust and safety solutions serving other online verticals and tailoring our technology to the unique attributes of music, to provide an unbiased, independent fraud detection solution capable of grappling with the persistent and ever-changing nature of fraud.”
To date, The MLC has achieved total royalties distributed of more than $2 billion since the first royalty distribution in April 2021. Since then, The MLC has continued to distribute monthly royalty distributions, all of which have been on time or early. For more information about The MLC, visit www.themlc.com.
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About the Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC)
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) was designated by the U.S. Register of Copyrights in July 2019 pursuant to the Music Modernization Act of 2018. The MLC is responsible for administering the blanket compulsory license for the use of musical works by digital music services. Since January 2021, The MLC has achieved total royalties distributed of more than $2 billion, at no cost to songwriters or music publishers.
The MLC is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of songwriters and representatives of music publishers. For more background on The MLC and its Board and Committee members, go to www.themlc.com.
About Beatdapp
Beatdapp is a venture backed streaming fraud detection company focused on eliminating streaming fraud and ensuring fair compensation for artists and songwriters. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, B.C, with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto focused. With its leading technology and team of experts, Beatdapp is aiming to revolutionize the music industry by providing accurate and transparent streaming data for the music industry that is expected to reach 1.2 billion paid consumers and generate $75 billion in revenue by 2030. Founded by industry and technology veterans Pouria Assadipour, Andrew Batey and Morgan Hayduk, Beatdapp has emerged as a leading music technology company with deep domain expertise, customer empathy and the technical ability to solve the most challenging problems presented by the explosion of streamed music consumption worldwide. Beatdapp is a trusted partner of streaming services, music labels, collection societies, creator tools services and distributors.
