• No more radio !

    Posted by Martin Oxenham on January 9, 2013 at 4:22 pm

    I have been paying PRS about £50 per year for the last five years to have the radio on at work. I’ve just had another lot on the ohone PPL or something telling me we need another license from them as well at £140 to have the radio on at work. No wonder there is so much piracy about !
    So its going off !. I told them I would be sending them an invoice for promoting songs as when the staff hear it they might go out and buy it so thats down to my promotion. He just laughed, so I might try it.

    Steve Hooper replied 11 years, 2 months ago 7 Members · 8 Replies
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  • John Singh

    Member
    January 14, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    So help me out here

    By playing someone’s music on the factory floor
    Let’s say Pink Floyd
    Its robbing the artists of performing rights royalty

    I would have thought playing the music might actually be promoting the sound which might prompt the listener to rush out and buy

  • Martin Oxenham

    Member
    January 14, 2013 at 3:38 pm

    If you play any music outside of a domestic environment then you need a license from the PRS and The PPL. That includes one person working in an office or shop where it might be heard by someone else.

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    January 14, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    PRS? PPL? Makes you wonder who are the real pirates!

    Maybe we should charge a yearly fee for each of our signs, just in case more than one person saw them!

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    January 15, 2013 at 12:56 pm

    Every time I get a call from the PRS or PPL , I PMSL :lol1:

  • John O'Sullivan

    Member
    January 16, 2013 at 11:12 pm

    What if, a member of staff parked there car in the fitting bay/workshop and left there radio playing 🙄 😀 .could the company be held responsible for that??its for his personal use as the company no longer plays music.!! 😀

  • Martin Oxenham

    Member
    January 16, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    Yes they would as its being played on their premises so that other people can hear it.

  • Lee Attewell

    Member
    January 17, 2013 at 7:07 am

    Everyone in my place is stone deaf 😀

  • Steve Hooper

    Member
    February 19, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    I now work alone (Billy-no-mates) so am exempt but when I used to have staff and had the PRS on the phone I said that the staff had their own MP3 players and headphones. When they said they could hear music in the background I said it was my headphones that I had removed to answer their call!

    They stopped calling me. 🙂

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