Biography | PRS for Music (formerly the Performing Right Society founded in 1914) is a UK copyright collection society and performance rights organisation undertaking collective rights management for musical works. PRS for Music was formed in 1997 as the MCPS-PRS Alliance, bringing together two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and Performing Right Society (PRS). The "PRS for Music" brand was adopted in 2009. |