For over 20 years, the UK MPLC has been regarded as a leading source of copyright information as well as provider of the MPLC Umbrella Licence® for non-commercial movie exhibitions. In 2003, MPLC made its Umbrella Licence avaiable in the UK and then across Europe.

Since its inception, the use of media for home-use only has expanded far beyond its original purpose. Today, organisations use movies not only for entertainment, but as training tools and supplements to their existing programs.

Prior to the MPLC’s inception, public performance licences were issued on a title-by-title basis, a time consuming and expensive process for the group wishing to show the movie. In December, 1986 MPLC began issuing blanket or Umbrella Licenses, which would allow an organisation an unlimited number of showings of titles from all MPLC authorised producers for a flat, annual fee.

Currently, over 450,000 locations around the world are covered under the MPLC Umbrella Licence, including multi-national companies, government agencies and non profit organisations.

The MPLC has offices in the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. Anti-piracy organisations investigate and prosecute copyright infringements throughout the world.

For more information about the MPLC, please contact us at + 353 656820368 or send us an email to ieinfo@mplc.ie.