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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    I agree. I can use the Companies House database too, but is it appropriate for me to look up other posters business interests, make assumptions about family connections and then post them to score points on a debate about music copyright enforcement in the workplace? I hope I will find wide...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    Even listening to talk radio you are not exempt according to PRS as they contain jingles, advertising music etc... The problem is their interpretation of the law gives them the right to suggest they have a claim for everything involving music. It goes against consumer choice and is in my opinion...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    @The Byre The information you posted is not on my website.
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    @paulears I am pleased to hear you are willing to listen to the legal arguments. @The Byre I challenged you to come up with legal arguments backing your claims and instead you decided to do a KGB style background check on me and post personal details not relevant to this discussion. This...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    @Jeff FV The "Domestic and Non-Domestic" terms are used in PRS literature only and not in copyright law. I personally prefer professional/non professional. But it is up to you what terms you use as the copyright law makes no reference to the setting in which the "public performance" takes place...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    Thanks for the support. To clarify my point about the BBC I was just musing or thinking aloud. Sorry if this was confusing. It is my understanding the BBC have a right to broadcast to all members of the public in the UK professional and domestic. Therefore it is difficult to imagine that they...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    This conversation highlights why I feel there is a need for what I suggested in my original post. A resource of knowledge based on facts and legal documentation that is sourced and if necessary political and legal action to seek clarity and fairness for the business community. It is obvious...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    After doing some research Sky have different licenses for business and domestic customers. The BBC however has a blanket public broadcast license. Since the BBC has no business package\license, how is it the PRS have negotiated a deal solely with their non professional customers only ? The...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    I would say the law in this case is quite clear. It is because Sky has a license to show Game of Thrones solely to their subscribers which is a defined audience managed by encrypting the content and only distribution decryption keys to valid subscribers. They do not have a public broadcast...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    Very good point! Yes this actually has been debated many times and a lot of legal heads have suggested they are in agreement that they are actually charging for the same thing twice. Not that any business owners would be made aware of this in PRS literature and I don't believe it has ever been...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    I think you are to some extent constructing a straw man argument here, which is exactly my problem with the whole issue. "Music is not free. It is somebody's private property." I'll take it the sentiment you are trying to express is : "Copying and playing of music is restricted by copyright...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    @The Byre what your response has done has highlighted why we need impartial information available. Heaven forbid they ask someone like you, who was previously mentioned as someone who might have interesting insight but now proceeds to aggressively let forth the most ludicrous and off topic rant...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    I think this is missing the point of this discussion. We don't dispute that PPL\PRS has rights to enforce the copyrights of their clients. The problem is that many businesses dispute their interpretation of copyright laws. What they do with the money they obtain isn't hugely relevant to the...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    Interesting I have not seen that before, however I would dispute that in a situation of 4 employees in a commercial space listening to music was a "public performance" and should actually be paying PRS zero. PRS has a very good marketing department and articles like this (published on their...
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    PRS\PPL Music Licensing - Know Your Rights

    Thanks for the replies. I think one thing that gets me is that there is a total lack of information outside of PRSforMusiccom. I have spent many hours researching and still have more questions than answers. Every conversation in regard to this topic is proceeded by a chaotic storm of opinions...
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