> perhaps similar to automatic royalties for pop-song airplay From http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-compulsory-license.html http://www.nolo.com

> perhaps similar to automatic royalties for pop-song airplay From http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-compulsory-license.html http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-compulsory-... In order to take advantage of this compulsory license, a notice must be sent to the copyright owner along with a fee set by the U.S. Copyright Office, known as the statutory fee or statutory rate. The fee for recordings is currently (as of 2017) 9.1 cents per song (or 1.75 cents per minute of playing time). To verify the current rate, check the Copyright Office's guide to compulsory licenses. On the site, you can click “Mechanical Royalty Rate.”