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Legal Fights, Transparency & Neutrality: DiMA’s CEO On Improvements Streamers Suggest for the MLC

The Digital Music Association CEO Graham Davies discusses how streaming services would like to improve the MLC at the five year mark of the MMA.

But this process still represents a rare opportunity for stakeholders — like songwriters, publishers and streaming services — to discuss what they think these organizations have done well, and how they could improve operations for the next five years. Doug Collins, co-author of the MMA, recently wrote a guest column with Billboard that says that DiMA and the services “want to give equal weight to the opinions of digital companies as well as the rights of songwriters.” He also said that The MLC is an institution that was not supposed to be neutral. I’m wondering, given the NMPA and songwriter groups have been very outspoken against the things that streaming services are doing right now, do you think that it will be more difficult to work together in positive ways?

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