So below is a notice we received today from PRS for Music.
We've taken the offending tracks down for now.
We'll keep you posted.
Copyright Agent
Six Apart Ltd.
548 4th Street
San Francisco, California 94107, USA
21st July 2009
Dear Sir,
This notice complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)).
I am the Internet
Investigations Officer within the Anti-Piracy Unit of PRS for Music.
PRS for Music is the trading name of MCPS-PRS-Alliance Ltd and
represents members of both the Mechanical-Copyright Protection
Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS).
The MCPS is a
collecting society within the UK music industry which acts on behalf of
the vast majority of those, who own, control and administer the
copyright subsisting in musical works. Our members are primarily
composers of music, lyricists and the publishers of songs.
The purpose of MCPS is
(on behalf of its members) to negotiate agreements with those who wish
to copy or distribute music, to collect royalties due from the
recording of members' copyright musical works and
to distribute those royalties to the appropriate copyright owners.
MCPS is obliged to
protect the works of its members from infringement and to that end has
established an Anti-Piracy Unit which investigates and takes legal
action in all areas of music piracy. MCPS acts as
an exclusive agent on behalf of its members and its mandate includes
the enforcement of its members’ copyrights on the internet.
We have identified you
as the host of allegedly infringing content on the internet using the
contact information published in your terms of service.
The
alleged infringement is: the hosting of unlicensed and unauthorised
arrangements ('mash-ups') of of our members's musical works at:
and
(IP address: 204.9.177.195).
and
the hosting of a related link site promoting and linking to these and
other files allegedly infringing our members's musical works:
Many of our member works including the following obvious examples have allegedly been infringed:
Work title: Did You See Me Coming
Composers: Neil Francis TENNANT / Christopher Sean LOWE
Publishers: Sony-ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd
PRS for Music Tunecode: 9234641H
Work title: In Private
Composers: Neil Francis TENNANT / Christopher Sean LOWE
Publishers: Sony-ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd
PRS for Music Tunecode: 6747087P
Please note that the
above are examples only and many other infringements affecting our
members’ rights also allegedly exist in this case.
The alleged infringement was identified at 10:56:09 BST on 20/07/2009.
Evidence of the alleged infringement has been recorded.
I swear, under penalty
of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and
that I am authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owners detailed
above in relation to an exclusive right that
is allegedly being infringed. I have a good faith belief that use of
the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is
not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Taylor
Internet Investigations Officer
CC: Sharan Ghuman – Investigations Support Officer