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| Businesses such as TV and radio stations use music everyday, as do restaurants, health clubs, theme parks, or corporations. Whether it is a bar playing music to attract customers to their establishment or a gym playing music for their members in aerobics classes, businesses need to obtain a performing rights license for each song used even if the music is only for their employee's enjoyment.
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What's the difference between PPL and the PRS? |
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Both are collecting societies licensing similar types of music users, representing work on behalf of different rights owners. PPL represents record companies, whilst PRS represents Lyric writers, Composers and publishers. |
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What will a PPL licence allow me to do? |
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A PPL licence is customised for each licensee and will enable you to play sound recordings in public according to your particular circumstance.
Specific terms and conditions apply to all our licences. For example, a public performance licence does not allow you to re-record commercial sound recordings onto other media. In certain specific instances, we are able to grant re-recording (dubbing) licences to professional music service providers through our Music Systems department.
- It gives permission to use all recordings controlled by PPL.
- Without this “blanket” licence, it would be necessary to obtain individual permissions from the concerned Companies, towards the usage of their sound recordings.
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What does PPL do with the licence fees it collects? |
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We distribute all the revenue we collect, after deduction of administration costs, to our member record companies. |
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I'm promoting their material, record companies should be paying me! |
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Essentially, you are only 'promoting' what you wish to play, which means that many thousands of recordings get no promotion at all. What we do know from numerous surveys is that music makes an environment more attractive to customers and they are more likely to enter and stay in an establishment where music is being played. |
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Do I need other licences for playing music? |
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You may also need licences from PRS who issue licences on behalf of the writers and publishers of songs.
Depending on your circumstances, you may also need to obtain other more general permissions, such as liquor and public entertainment licences, fire certificates, etc, and we recommend that you contact your local authority (ies) for advice. |
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