Colin Case has found this useful information about music and bars.
PPL & PRS LICENCES FOR QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE STREET PARTIES
Added 23/4/12. This information updates s.47.6.2 in The Russell-Cooke Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook (VSLH3).
The Performing Right Society (PRS for Music) announced on 15 March 2012 that it would not charge a licence fee for music played at certain small community events, such as street parties, celebrating the Queen’s diamond jubilee. To be eligible for this exemption, all the of the following criteria must be met: the event must be in celebration of the jubilee, take place between 2-5 June 2012 inclusive, be organised and run by unpaid volunteers, be provided for the local community, and have a total capacity or expected audience of 300 or fewer. The event must not generate a profit, and must be held in premises or a place that does not otherwise require or currently hold a PRS for Music licence.
This year the Big Lunch is on 3 June and has been announced by Buckingham Palace as part of the main programme of events over the jubilee weekend, so will presumably be eligible for the waiver if it meets the other criteria. However, the PRS website says nothing about other street parties and similar activities to mark other events.
Further information about this discretionary waiver of the fee for jubilee events, and about possible discounts for other jubilee events that are provided for charity or the community but do not qualify for the waiver, is available from PRS for Music via tinyurl.com/8ynqjve.
The Phonographic Performance Licence (PPL) website does not say anything about any similar waiver, so a PPL licence might be required even if PRS is not. For more about these licences, see PPL-PRS licences for performing copyright music.
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Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730
Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730
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