The Music Publishers Association plans to launch by early February its first major push to shut down Web sites that illegally offer copyrighted sheet music.
The New York-based group plans to send "cease and desist" letters to commercial sites that offer unlicensed print music. The group also plans to send letters to Internet service providers, notifying them that they are hosting sites engaged in illegal activity.
Many of the targeted businesses are drawing revenue from banner advertising from large companies. And they're not paying the writers. Ouch!
The planned legal action marks a change among music publishers, which had been filing individual lawsuits against copyright violators.
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