Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has announced a new collaboration with Beatdapp to “complement and enhance” MLC’s existing streaming fraud detection capabilities.
Beatdapp, a music streaming fraud detection company, announced a $17 million funding round in January.
Beatdapp has previously said its technology can analyze large data sets to identify fraudulent flows and ensure artists and rights holders are paid legitimately.
The company also previously said it analyzed more than 2 trillion streams and 20 trillion data points 2023.
The services provided by Beatdapp will now complement MLC’s existing internal processes.
Since its first royalty distribution in April 2021, MLC has distributed more than $2 billion in total royalties to date.
Andrew Mitchell, chief analytics and automation officer at MLC, said: “MLC is uniquely positioned in the music industry to make a significant contribution to solving the problem of streaming fraud.”
“MLC is uniquely positioned within the music industry to make a significant contribution to solving the problem of streaming fraud.”
Andrew Mitchell, MLC
Mitchell added: “Building on our ongoing efforts, we are proud to partner with Beatdapp to further expand the many ways MLC can serve its more than 43,000 members.”
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“MLC plays a vital role in the music industry and we are proud to partner with them and strengthen their ongoing efforts to combat streaming fraud.”
Morgan Haiduk and Andrew Beatty, Beatdapp
Morgan Hayduk and Andrew Batey, co-chief executives of Beatdapp, added: “MLC plays a vital role in the music industry and we are proud to partner with them and strengthen their ongoing efforts to combat streaming fraud.
“Beatdapp has built its own technology by learning from the best trust and security solutions serving other online verticals and tailoring our technology to the unique properties of music to provide an unbiased, independent fraud detection solution that can cope with ongoing and The nature of constant change.
Additionally, Beatdapp formed a strategic partnership with Universal Music Group in January.
In October, it partnered with a California-based generative AI music startup Bumi The entire decentralized catalog of the latter is analyzed. The partnership was established less than a year ago Spotify Spotify has reportedly removed a large number of tracks distributed through Boomy from its platform due to concerns that scammers were using the tracks to manipulate Spotify’s payment model.
Beatdapp’s advisory board is comprised of music industry veterans, including former Warner Music Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Technologist Howisinger and Adam ParnesFormer global head of music publishing at Spotify. 2020, Brian Turner, founder of Prioritize recordingjoin Beatdapp’s advisory board.
Beatdapp has also recently collaborated with betportprovides digital music services for EDM, specifically for DJs.global music business
