{
  "id": 12887168,
  "title": "Music Publishers Will Be Handed Millions of Dollars Next Year. Here’s Why",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/music-publishers-will-be-handed-millions-of-dollars-next-year-heres",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-publishers-mlc-black-box-royalties-explained/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Starting in April, music publishing companies will receive approximately $7 million every month as part of a process mandated by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). This is the largest payout the biggest publishers will receive, due to a pool of unclaimed royalties that have accumulated over time.",
  "summary": "The Mechanical Licensing Collective has just announced its first-ever market share distribution for all of the royalty money that never found its rightful owner.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}