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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 Licence for each song used even if the music is only for their
employee's enjoyment.
What's the difference between PPL and the IPRS?
Both are collecting societies licensing similar types of music users, representing work on
behalf of different rights owners. PPL represents record companies, whilst IPRS represents
Lyric writers, Composers and publishers.
What will a PPL licence allow me to do?
A PPL licence is customised for each Licencee 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.
What does PPL do with the licence fees it collects?
We distribute all the revenue we collect, after deduction of administration costs,
to our member record companies.
I'm promoting their material, record companies should be paying me!
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.
I need other licences for playing music?
You may also need licences from IPRS 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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