About Metadata
A free song publisher and ownership lookup by Third Chair. Look up any song’s publishers, writers and splits from The MLC’s public database of US mechanical rights. No sign-up.
What you can look up
- Songs: writers, publishers and administrators with their shares, the ISWC, and any share that is unclaimed or in dispute.
- Recordings by ISRC: the songs each recording uses and who owns them.
- Writers and publishers by name or IPI: their songs, co-writers and publishers.
- Artists: their songs and who owns each one.
Where the data comes from
Everything shown comes from The MLC’s public data, as registered there, and covers US mechanical rights only. It can be incomplete or out of date. Names are withheld when the person asks.
Who runs it
Third Chair, a music IP monitoring and copyright enforcement company.
Corrections and removal requests
Email support@usethirdchair.com. Ownership itself is changed at The MLC.