History
The Performing Right Society was founded in 1914 for collecting fees for live performance from sheet music. Initially it was distinct from the activity of the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society, originally founded in 1911, and renamed in 1924, and Phonographic Performance Limited, founded in 1934 by Decca and EMI, which collected fees for playing gramophone recordings.
The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society began as MECOLICO, the Mechanical Copyright Licenses Co. in 1911 in anticipation of the Copyright Act of 1911, and merged with the Copyright Protection Society in 1924. The
Another agency, the British Copyright Protection Company Ltd. or Britico was founded in 1932 by Alphonse Tournier, specializing on collecting royalties in the UK on French and German musical copyright, and becoming the British Copyright Protection Association Ltd. in 1962. This company, Britico, started to share computer facilities with PRS in 1969.
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