handa

What it does

handa is made to serve songwriters and producers, putting them first. This is built by the creators, for the creators. With just your name and IPI, handa will tell you the money the industry owes you, and then we recover it. Low friction. Just type your details into the platform and in seconds, we audit the actual ground-truth rights data the industry itself uses to decide who gets paid, and show you exactly what's unclaimed with your name on it.

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  Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours17d ago · pub.doub.ly · ▲77

  Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists: When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons,…

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