PRS for Music and PPL confirm plan to create joint venture for public performance licensing
New JV would focus on serving all UK public performance licensing customers and is anticipated to start licensing in 2017
PRS for Music and PPL have today confirmed that, following a strategic review commenced in 2015, the two companies plan to create a joint venture. The new company, jointly and equally owned by PPL and PRS for Music, would focus on serving all PPL and PRS for Music UK public performance licensing customers.
This will further streamline the experience for customers obtaining public performance 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, PRS for Music and PPL will be undertaking the necessary preparatory work for the joint venture, including engagement with regulators and other key stakeholders.
It is anticipated that the new company would start licensing in 2017, followed by a 12-month period during which the full transition of public performance licensing would be completed. It is likely that the new joint venture will be located in a UK city outside the M25.
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.
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.
Media Contacts
PRS for Music
Emma Anderson, Communications Manager, Media Relations
+44 (0)20 3741 4777 / press@prsformusic.com
PPL
Jonathan Morrish, PR Consultant
+ 44 7802 239 416 / jonathan.morrish@ppluk.com
About PRS for Music
Here for music since 1914, PRS for Music is a world-leading music collective management organisation representing the rights of more than 175,000 talented songwriters, composers and music publishers. Redefining the global standard for music royalties, PRS for Music ensures songwriters and composers are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public.
For 110 years it has grown and protected the rights of the music creator community, paying out royalties with more accuracy, transparency and speed. In 2023, PRS for Music paid out £943.6m in royalties and collected a record £1.08 billion in revenues. prsformusic.com
