PRS for Music and PPL have today announced a joint venture focused on public performance licensing across the UK.
The new company, jointly and equally owned by the two collecting societies, will focus on serving all existing and new PPL and PRS for Music public performance licensing customers.
Currently, businesses such as pubs, shops and hairdressers need to take out a public performance licence with both PRS for Music and PPL if they perform copyright music on their premises to staff and/or customers.
This new venture will streamline the experience for customers obtaining these licences, allowing them to secure a joint PPL and PRS for Music licence with a single phone call or a few clicks on the web, paid for with a single invoice.
Over the coming months, the organisations will undertake preparatory work for the joint venture, including engagement with regulators and other key stakeholders.
The new company is expected to start licensing in 2017, followed by a 12-month transition period. It is likely that it will be located in a UK city outside the M25.
Robert Ashcroft, PRS for Music chief executive, said: ‘Creating a single point of contact for our UK public performance customers would allow us to significantly simplify music licensing for UK businesses. It is in our members’ and customers’ interests to ensure that our licensing is ever more accurate and efficient. A joint venture between our organisations would be a landmark event for both societies.’
Peter Leathem, PPL chief executive, added: ‘Both our organisations firmly believe that the proposed joint venture would be a very positive development for both our customers and our members, building on the successful joint licensing solutions and other joint working initiatives that PPL and PRS for Music have delivered over the last few years.’
PRS for Music members can find out more about what this joint venture means for them in this statement from Karen Buse, the organisation’s executive director of membership and international: http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/businessnews/Pages/PRSforMusicPPLplanjointventure.aspx
The new company, jointly and equally owned by the two collecting societies, will focus on serving all existing and new PPL and PRS for Music public performance licensing customers.
Currently, businesses such as pubs, shops and hairdressers need to take out a public performance licence with both PRS for Music and PPL if they perform copyright music on their premises to staff and/or customers.
This new venture will streamline the experience for customers obtaining these licences, allowing them to secure a joint PPL and PRS for Music licence with a single phone call or a few clicks on the web, paid for with a single invoice.
Over the coming months, the organisations will undertake preparatory work for the joint venture, including engagement with regulators and other key stakeholders.
The new company is expected to start licensing in 2017, followed by a 12-month transition period. It is likely that it will be located in a UK city outside the M25.
Robert Ashcroft, PRS for Music chief executive, said: ‘Creating a single point of contact for our UK public performance customers would allow us to significantly simplify music licensing for UK businesses. It is in our members’ and customers’ interests to ensure that our licensing is ever more accurate and efficient. A joint venture between our organisations would be a landmark event for both societies.’
Peter Leathem, PPL chief executive, added: ‘Both our organisations firmly believe that the proposed joint venture would be a very positive development for both our customers and our members, building on the successful joint licensing solutions and other joint working initiatives that PPL and PRS for Music have delivered over the last few years.’
PRS for Music members can find out more about what this joint venture means for them in this statement from Karen Buse, the organisation’s executive director of membership and international: http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/businessnews/Pages/PRSforMusicPPLplanjointventure.aspx
