The U.S. Copyright Office is undertaking a public study to determine the best practices that the Mechanical Licensing Collective may implement to effectively identify copyright owners and unclaimed royalties of musical works while encouraging copyright owners to claim royalties and ultimately reduce the occurrence of unclaimed royalties. To initiate this study, the Office will hold an all-day educational symposium to facilitate discussion on these issues by broad industry participants and other interested members of the public, including featuring Open Music’s Nicole d’Avis on a panel on creating comprehensive databases.