National Music Publishers' Association
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| Formation | 1917 |
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| Type | Trade association |
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President and CEO
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David Israelite |
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Board of Directors
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Martin Bandier Caroline Bienstock Jody Gerson Lee Eastman Willard Ahdritz Barry Coburn Neil Gillis Zach Katz Chip McLean Justin Kalifowitz Leeds Levy David Renzer Ralph Peer, II Matt Pincus Irwin Z. Robinson Jody Klein Cameron Strang Golnar Khosrowshahi |
| Website | nmpa.org |
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) is a trade association for the American music publishing industry. The NMPA aims to "protect its members' property rights on the legislative, litigation, and regulatory fronts."
The NMPA has pursued litigation against numerous organizations, including Amway,YouTube, Kazaa, LimeWire, FullScreen and Napster.
The NMPA was founded in 1917 as the Music Publishers' Protective Association, seeking to end the practice of publishers having to pay vaudeville theaters for performing their music. The payola was said to have reached $400,000. The MPPA mandate went into effect May 7, 1917. Founding firms included:
In 1927, the NMPA founded the Harry Fox Agency, a mechanical rights collecting society.
In 1966 the name of the Music Publishers' Protective Association was changed to the National Music Publishers Association. The NMPA lobbies federal legislators and regulators on behalf of music publishers and crafted guidelines for the Copyright Act of 1976.
In September 2001, the NMPA reached a settlement with Napster, turning the company into a fee-based service with publishers licensing music to the users. The NMPA won a judgment against peer-to-peer filing service StreamCast Networks in September 2006. In 2007, NMPA joined a lawsuit against YouTube for hosting user-generated videos containing music under copyright. The suit was dropped four years later.
Along with the Music Publishers' Association (MPA), the NMPA has been responsible for taking many free guitar tablature web sites offline. NMPA President David Israelite asserted that "[u]nauthorised use of lyrics and tablature deprives the songwriter of the ability to make a living, and is no different than stealing". The NMPA also pushed for rate hikes for legal downloads of music in 2008.
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