Mecolico (“the Mechanical Copyright Licenses Company” – precursor of MCPS which formed in 1924)

“The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society was established in its first form in 1910 as Mecolico, the Mechanical Copyright Licenses Company. This was in anticipation of the introduction of the Copyright Act of 1911, which formally accredited copyright to sound recordings.

Mecolico was the first organisation to license mechanical rights in the UK and subsequently joined with the Copyright Protection Society in 1924 (to form MCPS, the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society). Together, they were innovative in collecting mechanical royalties from mass-produced discs.”