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PRS FOR Music helps businesses and community groups get access to music, while making sure songwriters and composers are rightfully rewarded. Playing music to staff and customers in a business environment is considered a public performance – whether played through the radio, TV, on a CD or DVD. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 states you need permission from the copyright holder to play music in public. As PRS acts on behalf of 85,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers it can grant those permissions, saving you time and money from gaining permission directly. A music licence allows businesses to use virtually all music available in the UK. Many musicians are small businesses themselves and depend on royalty income to make a living. A music licence for a small business costs from just £44 pa, less than £1 a week. 0800 0684828
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Nirvana Cycles were told by the PRS that
they’d receive a ‘back- dated’ bill
(Not) music to my ears
Do you play music in your shop, or play DVDs in store? Have you been contacted by the PRS? One retailer shares their thoughts…
Dear BikeBiz I don't want to be serial complainer, but we've been contacted by the PRS (Performing Rights Society) saying it wants us to pay a fee for playing the radio in our workshop. They want £200 a year from us. That’s a lot to ask in this day and age. We have a radio on in the workshop, where I and a member of staff work. The workshop is close to the shop floor, so customers can hear it, although we're not actually playing the radio in the shop.
I had no idea that we needed to pay a fee
to play music. We've had the radio on for years, and when I told the PRS that they told me that they were going to back date our bill!
Why do we have to pay for music twice? If
we’ve bought a CD, we’ve already paid for it, and we pay the licence fee too. And by playing music a customer might even want to go and buy that later. They should be paying us. And what about those bike DVDs some shops play in store, of DVDs they’ve got for sale? Do we need to pay for those too? I propose that we make a stand. The PRS is supposed to be getting money to the artists, so if independent bike shops like us all decide we’re not paying the PRS money and switch off our radios then that’s thousands of customers who won’t hear new music, and the musicians will lose out. Who’s with me? Nirvana Cycles Surrey
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