Collecting societies PRS and MLC both made announcements about new data initiatives. UK-based PRS announced a new music rights data portal, due to launch next year, which will make it easier to access information about the songs it represents, including songwriter credits, key codes like the ISWC and IPIs, and information about what recordings contain each song. US-based MLC announced a new scheme involving music distributors, in which it will make it easier for those distributors to see what recordings on the streaming services have never been matched to songs. The aim is that those distributors can alert the artists behind the recording who may have also written the song, but have never formally got the song into the system, meaning they are missing out on royalties. [PRS STORY] | [MLC STORY]