The law ensures that the UK's 60,000 songwriters and
composers that PRS represents – who are small businesses themselves – receive royalties for the use of their work.
PRS aims to ensure that all businesses that play music in public – for example, to customers or employees – understand that permission to do so is needed from the writers and composers of that music.
A PRS Music Licence can cost as little as £66 a year. It gives any premises permission to play more than 10 million pieces of music in all formats. Licences are tailored according to the size of business and the way in which music is played.
External link:Performing Rights Society (PRS) - www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.ukThe full article contains 166 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
