音乐创作者难以及时确认流媒体版税是否困在 MLC 黑箱

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若歌曲未在 MLC 注册或元数据有问题，流媒体产生的机械版税不会到达创作者，而是存入被称为“黑箱”的池子；MLC 自己的面板显示持有超过 6.56 亿美元。

your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons, that money will never reach you, it just collects in a big pile we call the "black box". That pile is big. The MLC's own dashboard currently shows over $656M is held (themlc.com/blanket-royalties), and the biggest problem is the MMA dictates that The MLC cannot hold that money indefinitely. At some point, by law, The MLC must distribute this big pile of cash, and since they don't know who it's