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U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE FINALIZES NEW RULE ENSURES STREAMING ROYALTIES POST-TERMINATION
he U.S. Copyright Office has finalized a rule to ensure that songwriters who reclaim their rights through termination will begin receiving streaming royalties. This decision addresses long-standing concerns over the Mechanical Licensing Collective’s (MLC) previous policy, which critics argued unfairly favored former rights holders even after songwriters had taken ownership of their works.
