The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is a nonprofit organization established under the Music Modernization Act of 2018.

[3] This move was made to ensure the accuracy of their musical works data in its current database.

As of January 2021, the MLC began paying royalties to rights owners.

[4] In October 2022, it was reported that the MLC had paid almost $700 million in blanket royalties to songwriters and publishers.

[8] On the 6th December 2023, The MLC announced their Supplemental Matching Network, which initially consists of five companies (Blokur, Jaxsta, Pex, Salt and SX Works, a SoundExchange company) that will provide data matching services to complement and enhance The MLC’s existing matching processes and capabilities.