... because before anyone can use one of it members musical works, they have to be issued a licence to use that work. The mechanical licence as it is called is the permission to "reproduce the song on a sound recording". (Page 80. Harrison, A. 2003) The mechanical right consists of three rights from the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988, which are the right to copy the work, the right to issue copies of the work to the public and the right to rent or lend the work to the public. It would be very complicated if the music user wanted to use a musical work but had to seek and find out the owner of the music and then negotiate on a individual work-by-work basis. (www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/docsrepository/1136) It is just common sense that there is a licensing body to deal with all the music. The licensees to the MCPS supply ...

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