Every Copy Counts campaign asks teachers to help redistribute royalty fees

Printed Music Licensing Limited (PMLL) has launched a new campaign, Every Copy Counts, to encourage teachers to help redistribute royalty fees to songwriters and composers fairly and accurately. 

It is currently reported that only two per cent of schools in the UK are correctly logging the music they are copying, creating a deficit in data and resulting in hundreds of musicians suffering financial loss. 

To tackle this, the new campaign from PMLL asks teachers to log the music they are using through a new platform that simplifies the process. 

The digital offering also includes a range of free, exclusive teaching resources, as well as a set of multimedia teaching materials containing ideas for composing and songwriting in the classroom. 

Abigail D’Amore, who is a music education consultant and is leading the Every Copy Counts campaign, said: ‘The Schools Printed Music Licence is paid for centrally by the government for all state schools in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland and makes copying and arranging music for educational purposes a simple process. 

‘This is hugely beneficial for schools but, in order to comply with the rules of the licence, teachers are required to log the music they are using. Unfortunately, due to a lack of awareness, this data simply isn’t being captured effectively.

‘We know that teachers are under a huge amount of pressure and don’t have a lot of time, so PMLL has created a simple digital platform that allows music copied and arranged to be logged online.

‘Recording which music is copied, arranged and performed is a key way of supporting those working in the music publishing industry, enabling composers and songwriters to make a living from their art and demonstrating the integral nature of music in the school curriculum to the government.’

To record the music that has been copied in your school and to access further resources, visit www.everycopycounts.co.uk