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Four-on-the-Floor: Keep the Beat with Music Modernization Act Developments

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The following is a guest post by Regan A. Smith, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights.

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The Music Modernization Act (MMA) is a historic overhaul to the nation’s music copyright laws. As you may already know, the law creates a new blanket license covering the reproduction and distribution of musical works, to be administered by a mechanical licensing collective (MLC) once the license becomes available in 2021. The Copyright