The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is now accepting suggestions for songwriter candidates for the company’s Board of Directors and Unclaimed Royalties Oversight & Dispute Resolution Committees until Monday, July 31.

The MLC’s Board of Directors and Committees meet regularly and all meetings allow for virtual participation. Members are expected to devote sufficient time to prepare for and participate fully in all meetings. Candidates for the Board of Directors must be professional songwriters who retain and license mechanical rights for songs they have written.

Certain governance positions at The MLC are reserved for representatives of songwriters under the Music Modernization Act (MMA) of 2018. The terms of several songwriter seats on the Board and the organization’s Advisory Committees are slated to end later this year.

These include the following seats: two songwriter seats on the Board of Directors; two songwriter seats on the Dispute Resolution Committee, which recommends policies and procedures to the Board for the processing of royalties related to works that are subject to disputes over ownership; and two songwriter seats on the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee, which recommends policies and procedures to The MLC’s Board related to the distribution of unclaimed accrued royalties.

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