Each year, we run our Every Copy Counts Copycat Challenge. The Challenge this year will run from Monday 9th June until Friday 27th June inclusive.
During the 2025 challenge, one winner each week will receive a £200 voucher to spend on music or instruments for their school. Three runners-up each week will receive a copy of the PMLL 10-year anniversary songbook, which contains sheet music and chord charts for the most performed songs from 2012-2022, arranged for piano, voice and guitar; including hits such as Rolling in the Deep, Hold Back the River and Shape of You.
Gather together your termly or annual data and get set for the 2025 Copycat Challenge.
By submitting data during these three weeks, schools will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
If you do not wish to be entered into this prize draw please let PMLL know via [email protected].
Terms & Conditions
Copycat Challenge Mondy 9th to Friday 27th June 2025
General Rules
This competition (the Competition) is run by Printed Music Licensing Limited (PMLL, we, us and our), a company registered in England under company number 08177249. Our website address is www.pmll.org.uk.
Our address is Floor 3, 107 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8TZ.
The Competition is open to all PMLL-licensed Schools in the United Kingdom.
You must be at least 18 years old and have access to the internet in order to enter this Competition.
Competition Entry
Any school holding a valid Schools Printed Music Licence (SPML) that submits photocopied sheet music data into the online PMLL portal via www.hub.pmll.org.uk (the PMLL Portal) between Monday 9th and Friday 27 June 2025 will be entered into the prize draw. Each week there will be one winning prize of £200 and 3 runners-up prizes of the PMLL 10th Anniversary Songbooks. Schools will only be entered into the prize draw in the week they submit data.
SPML data must be submitted within the following dates and times to be eligible for entry into the prize draw:
Week 1: Start 00.01 Monday 9th June closes 23.59 Friday 13th June
Week 2 : Start 00.01 Saturday 14th June closes 23:59 20th June
Week 3: Start 00.01, 21st June closes 23.59 Friday 27th June 2025.
Submitting photocopied sheet music data into the PMLL Portal after these dates and times will not result in an entry into the Competition. We do not accept responsibility for late or lost entries due to lost internet connections.
Licences must be purchased via the PMLL Portal and the licence fee must have been paid in order for a school to be eligible.
Only one entry is allowed per licensee.
Officers, employees, agents and contractors of PMLL or any other MPA group company and their immediate families, as well as anyone professionally associated with this Competition or its administration, are ineligible to submit entries to the Competition. After you have entered the Competition, you may continue to submit photocopied sheet music data to the PMLL Portal but any subsequent submissions will not result in additional entries into the Competition.
If you do not wish to be entered into this prize draw please let PMLL know via [email protected].
By entering the Competition, you give PMLL permission to use the name of your school in promotional material on our website, on social media, and in printed materials to announce the winner.
Please read our Privacy Policy which tells you how we use any personal information we may collect about you.
Prizes and Winners
The winning school (the “Winner“) will be announced no later than 7 days from the close of entries each week.
The Winner will be the first entry chosen by a random draw performed by a computer process. The Runners-up will be the three names subsequently drawn by the same process, discounting the winner. You will be able to find out which schools have been selected by emailing [email protected]. If you object to any or all of your details being published or made available, please contact us at [email protected]. In such circumstances, we must still provide the information to the Advertising Standards Authority on request.
The Winner each week will receive a voucher to the value of £200 (the “Prize“) to spend on music or musical equipment for their establishment. The three runners-up each week will receive a copy of the PMLL 10th Anniversary Songbook.
The Winner and runners-up will be notified by email and/or phone, using the details provided via the PMLL Portal. The Prizes will be delivered by post. The Winners must provide a UK postal address. PMLL shall not be obliged to deliver the Prizes to any address outside of the UK. We will make all reasonable attempts to contact the winner and runners-up, however, failure to respond to claim the prize and confirm a postal address within 5 days will result in the Prize being forfeited, and a new Winner will be selected at random based on the criteria set out in the rules. The Prize will be delivered to the Winner and runners-up within 20 days of confirmation of their postal address. The delivery may need to be signed for.
Nothing in these terms shall limit or exclude the liability of PMLL or that of its employees to you for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that, by law, may not be limited or excluded. Subject to this, in no event shall we be liable to you for any loss, damage, or disappointment suffered as a result of your entering (or inability to enter) the Competition or your acceptance or non-acceptance of the Prize if you win.
The Winner and runners-up are solely responsible for all use made of the Prizes. Subject to the previous paragraph and except as expressly provided in these terms, PMLL will not be liable for any loss, expense or damage which is suffered in connection with this Competition or accepting the Prizes. No representations, warranties, conditions or other terms are made, given or accepted by us and no other terms shall apply, as between us and any person, in relation to the Prizes, including without limitation any terms as to suitability, reliability, satisfactory quality or fitness for purpose, or any other implied terms, all of which we exclude to the maximum extent permitted by law.
The Prizes are non-negotiable and non-transferable. The Prizes are as stated and there will be no cash alternative, in whole or in part.
PMLL reserves the right to award an alternative prize of equal value and, in exceptional circumstances, to vary, amend, or withdraw this Competition on reasonable notice.
Our offering of a particular Prize implies no affiliation on our part with, or sponsorship or endorsement of, the relevant third-party manufacturer, supplier, provider or organiser.
The decision of PMLL regarding any aspect of the Competition is final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into about it.
General
By entering the Competition, all entrants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by the Competition rules. All entry instructions form part of the rules.
PMLL reserves the right to (acting reasonably) disqualify any entrant it has reasonable grounds to believe has cheated or who tampered or attempted to tamper with the entry process for, or the operation of, the Competition, or whose conduct breached any of the rules of the competition contrary to the spirit of these terms or the intention of the Competition, or might, in our reasonable opinion, bring us, any of our affiliates or any of our or their respective brands into disrepute.
In the event that any winner is disqualified from the competition, PMLL at its sole discretion may decide whether a replacement should be selected. In this event, a new winner will be selected on the criteria as set out in these Rules.
This Competition and all issues arising out of it shall be governed in accordance with English Law and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Who is the Printed Music Licensing Limited (PMLL)?
On behalf of its Members, Printed Music Licensing Limited issues licences that enable schools, music services, amateur choirs and higher education institutions to copy and arrange sheet music (within the terms and conditions of each licence).
After deducting our running costs from the licence fee income we receive, the revenue generated by licences is distributed to our Members, who are either music rights publishers or print publishers.
Any questions? Email us at: [email protected]
