Music Publishers Association (UK)

Music Publishers Association (UK)
Not to be confused with Music Publishers' Association.

The Music Publishers Association (MPA) is a non-profit organization representing music publishers in the United Kingdom since 1881. It "exists to safeguard and promote the interests of music publishers and the writers signed to them; represent these interests to government, the music industry, the media and the public, provide publishers with a forum, a collective voice and a wide range of benefits, services and training courses; promote an understanding of the value of music and the importance of copyright; and provide information and guidance to members of the public".[1]

Conduct

In April 2011, the MPA issued a DMCA takedown notice against the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), a publisher of public domain sheet music. Go Daddy, the domain name registrar for the IMSLP, removed the domain name "imslp.org", leaving it inaccessible.[N 1] The MPA's argument was similar to that made in 2007 by Universal Edition. In particular, the MPA claimed that Rachmaninoff's 1913 choral symphony The Bells violated US and EU copyright.[2] According to IMSLP, the action is without any merit.[3] Almost 24 hours later, the MPA announced on Twitter that they had asked Go Daddy to reinstate the domain name.[4]

  1. ^ IMSLP advised to replace the previous domain name "imslp" in with "petruccilibrary" or "petruccimusiclibrary".

References

  1. ^ About the MPA
  2. ^ Text of the MPA's letter to Go Daddy
  3. ^ "IMSLP Under Attack" by Carolus, IMSLP Forum (21 April 2011)
  4. ^ Tweet by Will Lines, Music Publishers Association (UK) (22 April 2011)

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