1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Music Modernization Act of 2018 . 2. Blanket license for digital uses and mechanical licensing collective (a) Amendment Section 115 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by inserting in general after Availability and scope of compulsory license ; and (B) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: (1) (A) A person may by complying with the provisions of this section obtain a compulsory license to make and distribute phonorecords of a nondramatic musical work, including by means of digital phonorecord delivery. A person may obtain a compulsory license only if the primary purpose in making phonorecords of the musical work is to distribute them to the public for private use, including by means of digital phonorecord delivery, and— (i) phonorecords of such musical work have previously been distributed to the public in the United States under the authority of the copyright owner of the work; or (ii) in the case of a digital music provider seeking to make and distribute digital phonorecord deliveries of a sound recording embodying a musical work under a compulsory license— (I) the copyright owner of the sound recording first fixed such sound recording under the authority of the copyright owner of the musical work and is further authorized by the copyright owner of the musical work to make and distribute phonorecords embodying such work to the public in the United States; and (II) the copyright owner of the sound recording or its authorized distributor has authorized the digital music provider to make and distribute digital phonorecord deliveries of the sound recording to the public in the United States. (B) A person may not obtain a compulsory license for the use of the work in the making of phonorecords duplicating a sound recording fixed by another, including by means of digital phonorecord delivery, unless— (i) such sound recording was fixed lawfully