News - 08/06/2015

BPI launches online copyright protection portal at MIDEM 2015

BPI launches online copyright protection portal at MIDEM 2015

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) launched its new Copyright Protection Portal during a Midem press conference which took place in Cannes (France) on June 6. The portal was conceived to help labels, musicians and music businesses see where illegal copies of their music are being made available online and track how BPI is responding. 

The tool will be available for free to all BPI members, PPL's performers and members of AIM (The Association of Independent Music) who are registered with PPL. 

Through the portal, users will be allowed to upload their repertoire into BPI's bespoke crawlers and to view the "pirate activity" that has been prevented or "disrupted".

It will be possible to check how many infringing links have been removed from Google and other search results, how many links have been removed via notice and take down from the source or website hosting them without permission, and which tracks from a label or musician's repertoire are being pirated the most and on which sites.

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