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PRS For Music announces new review of live music licensing

PRS For Music is having another big think about the way live music is licensed in the UK in the form of an eight week consultation on the terms of its Popular Music Concerts Tariff (aka Tariff LP).

Promoters of gigs and festivals are obliged to pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers for the songs that are performed at their events, of course, even when artists sing exclusively their own material, and these royalties are paid via the Performing Right Society. The PRS last launched a review into the way it licences live music in 2010, with that consultation being pushed back a few times so that it didn't conclude until late 2011, with the society deciding to keep things as they were.

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Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: News from CMU Online

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