Well isn't that special

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

Email: dmca@sixapart.com

 

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:

http://viprhealthcare.typepad.com/files/dan_mei_marc_johnce_-_did_you_see_me_moving_along.mp3

and

http://viprhealthcare.typepad.com/files/dan_mei_marc_johnce_-_private_human.mp3

(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:

http://www.mashuptown.com/2009/07/bootrospective-a-dmf-tribute-to-the-pet-shop-boys.html  (IP address 204.9.177.195).

 

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

 

Comments

[Adam K]

Absolutely ridiculous. Fight the good fight, guys.

[zerohero_angel]

thats BS, copy rights my a## its money and fight for ur rights!

[tim from Radio Clash]

welcome! You've truly arrived, I got one of those from PRS in 2004.

Strange I didn't think the Pet Shop Boys were against mashups...odd. Maybe it's just PRS being bastards

[Neverbeendead]

In time the business model of anti-piracy associations will be reduced to a small independant transparent software program so that their parasite empire falls like what these associations claim to be taking care of the fall of parasite pirates.
Sites like deezer.com are the new sites that are setting the new standard in an unstoppable way. Even when they get taken down a new one will rise since there is real money to be made with those sites, even in the possible short run.
In time sites like that will even have their own market with shares, when a similar site gets an established name like twitter or facebook. Then you can log into the free music site powered by ads and if desired buy and sell shares from for example metallica. The value is based on a mix of variables like playlist popularity, position in the popular charts and what not.
These anti-piracy associations know their end is a comin and are just trying to cash in on their last spasms.

[Ben]

Fuck off MCPS!
Greetz from Germany.

Ben

[oxxo]

Pet Shop Boys hey? Copyrighted??

it's barely copyrighteous for fucksakes..

stupid faggots.

T

[mark taylor]

too bad i don't know where to get any anthrax... that fuckers address is at the top :)

[zroc]

WOW. I might just take tomatoes to the Pet Shop Boys concert in September now.

[Steve]

What a great dis-service this PRS has done to the Pet Shop Boys.

If I take a picture of a friend in an art gallery, with a Picasso on one side, and a Matisse on the other, am i committing copyright infringement?