[cma-l] PPL / PRS for Music mini consultation

[Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio]

Or even a licence for each ear!

 

It’s truly daft. Two co-workers share a car to work – no licence needed.
They stroll into their private workplace with a radio and lo! a licence
becomes due.

 

Our local heritage museum (non-profit) has just told me that they have had
to stop playing CDs of traditional music in the reception area following
intervention by PPL. When they told PPL that as they couldn’t afford the
licence they would stop playing the music, PPL hit them with a demand for
over £60 in administrative fees (for not taking out a licence they didn’t
want in the first place!). 

 

PPL’s record label members will lose out of course because the idea of
playing the music is to encourage people to but the CDs, which are on sale.
I’m not even sure they are actually required to have a licence if it is a
non-profit and makes no charge for public entry to the area where the music
is played.

 

Alex

 

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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Clive Glover
Sent: 11 February 2016 16:08
To: The Community Media Association Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] PPL / PRS for Music mini consultation

 

Alex

 

Don't mention this out loud!

 

PRS/PPL might demand each car be licensed for listening to music!

 

Clive Glover

 

On 11 Feb 2016, at 16:00, Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio wrote:





The one that gets me is that if someone drives to a local shop with the
radio on, no additional licence or royalty is due, but if they set foot in
the shop and it has the radio on, a licence suddenly becomes due.

 

Equally if two people work alone in closed offices no licence is due, but if
they share an office and use one radio instead of two, or they allow someone
else into their office, again a licence is suddenly due.

 

Mad or what.


Alex 

 



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