The leading provider of public performance licences for businesses who use streaming, TV and film content to enhance their employee or customer experience.
Supporting producers worldwide, the MPLC Blanket Licence covers the studios and distributors we represent whilst protecting organisations from the hidden risks of unlicensed streaming, TV and film content.
An IME (Independent Management Entity) is a type of licensing body which grants rights on behalf of more than one rightsholder. Its main purpose is to grant licences allowing for clients to play copyrighted material in public spaces.
For example, we partner with studios and producers to create licences that allow businesses of all sizes to show their movies and TV shows in public. The licensing fees help pay these creators for their work.
As a for-profit, or commercial, entity, MPLC can pay its rightsholders faster than not-for-profit organisations and is regulated by legislation and a supervisory authority, the IPO (Intellectual Property Organisation).
Another main licensing body is the CMO (Collective Management Organisation) which is different from an IME in a few ways – one of which is that an IME is neither owned nor operated, wholly or indirectly, by the rightsholders. It’s, as the name suggests, independent as IMEs work on behalf of the rightsholders while not being controlled by them. The CMO, on the other hand, has a membership made up directly by the rightsholders.
Additionally, reporting requirements for CMOs are more extensive, but both CMOs and IMEs are regulated by the Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016.
