My boss has been sent an e-mail about broadcasting music in the office

Greebo said:
(assuming it is not also your workplace or a registered business address

And weddings, funerals and family get to gethers in a pub don't need a licence so long as there is no financial gain.
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My home is a registered business address and a workplace for my dad.
And I'm not sure but my dad may have officially made his car his company car so he can claim VAT back on fuel.
 
DJMK4 said:
Was an e-mail being sent round as someone apparently visited the two office buildings by us which we let an office from.

Looks like they are just going round using a scare tactic to try and get people to get a licence.
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It works though. They visit, hear a radio playing. Ask you for your licence or make you pay one. If you don't they take you to court.

It's a bit like tv licensing. They have the address of every business who hasn't paid a licence so easy pickings for them.

Hairdressers seem to be their popular and easiest target.
 
not read all the replies, however...

If your playing Radio 1 in your car very loud with your windows down.. does this count? i see all the chavs doing this! please fine them accordingly :D
 
snowdog said:
My home is a registered business address and a workplace for my dad.
And I'm not sure but my dad may have officially made his car his company car so he can claim VAT back on fuel.
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He doesn't need a licence unless he has work colleagues or customers visit.

Just to clarify:

Workers/colleagues and/or customers/clients have been recognised by the courts as falling within the composer's ‘public’. Any person wishing either to play or to authorise the playing of our music to such individuals in the workplace - wherever that workplace is situated - should therefore obtain a Music Licence.

PRS for Music requires any workplace using music to obtain a Music licence. However, PRS for Music, at its discretion, will not make a charge for its licence in certain circumstances:

•Home offices within a private residence - for an individual working on their own in the home office or for people who are permanently resident at that address. However, if you have colleagues working with you (who do not live at the premises) or customers/clients coming into your home (and music is played at these times), PRS for Music would apply the relevant tariff.
•Lone workers - workplaces with only one worker, where music is not made available to any visitors/customers coming onto the premises.
•Personal Portable Devices - Where music is only used in the workplace by individual employees or workers solely by means of Personal Portable Devices (such as MP3 players) with headphones. Any music must only be audible to the employee or worker to whom the Personal Portable Device belongs through a headset attached to that device and not to any other individual in the workplace.
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Of course even if he has work colleagues or customers visit the chances of him being caught are nearly zero.
 
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Greebo said:
Correct. There are some radio stations you can listen to without any copywrited music played so you don't need to pay an additional licence to the PRS.

The rule is 70 years after the death of the composer so anything where the composer dies pre 1940 is allowed to be played for free.

So either bin the radio or buy Creative Commons licensed music.

Hell, you can be fined for even singing now!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-told-stop-singing-works--pay-licence.html
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I think this may be a good thing for smaller unsigned artists, as the PRS gives them sweet FA anyway, so I think there is something to be said for unsigned music radio stations.

You can even get internet radios these days, that work over WiFi :cool:
 
mark66 said:
I was in my local barber shop the other day and the guy took a call from the PRS asking if they listened to the radio in the shop.....he looked pretty uncomfortable answering the questions with the radio blaring in the background!
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he should have said,

"sorry I cannot hear you, I'll ask the band practising in the back room to stop for a min"..

then turned the radio off
 
So does that inculde the use of personal CDs to play over a specker system, such as the one at my work place, which is well a big CD player
 
what about this then, if you have a tv in the office and pay the tv license etc.

then you put it on a music channel, are you covered because you pay the tv licence or do you still need to go and purchase another licence to play music through the music channel?
 
PRS is completely legit we had letters to our business regarding this I basically told them we dont play music (took radio's out) they do inspect places so dont mess with PRS :eek:
 
What if in the room of 8 people you have 8 radios (one on each of the persons desk) all playing Radio 1 aloud ?

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Looks that has been answered...

Skyfall said:
So let me get this straight, you can allow all of your employees to listen to the radio on a personal radio and that's fine, but if you let the exact same people listen to the exact same radio on a speaker you have to pay?! WTF?
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AMG said:
So does that inculde the use of personal CDs to play over a specker system, such as the one at my work place, which is well a big CD player
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kevmeister said:
what about this then, if you have a tv in the office and pay the tv license etc.

then you put it on a music channel, are you covered because you pay the tv licence or do you still need to go and purchase another licence to play music through the music channel?
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Cd's played on speakers still need the PRS licence I am afraid. Ditto to the tv on the music channel.
 
So wait wait wait??

i have the usual tv/radio licence so i can listen/watch tv and radio at home.
i take my radio to private office. 5 other ppl work in office who can hear the radio.

However luckily they also have paid for a tv/radlio licence each of them individually.

So everyones covered. Windows are closed so no member of the public can hear squat.

Please dont say to me "its cuz you aint at home no more - you at work so you need nother licence m8"

hahahaha! A complete farce!

In fact i dont believe it - Show me a company that has been done for this (provided it meets the terms of what ive outlined i.e. each person has usual licence and the music cant be heard by random joe public)

Sod that for a game of soldiers...
 
reflux said:
Probably from the PRS or the BPI. According to them, playing music in any kind of public place constitutes a public performance and if you're not paying for it, it's illegal.

Total nonsense of course.
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Thats what licence is for is it not?

What happens if I give someone a headphone and I keep one in my ear? Do we need to pay then now?

No wonder the music industry is going to ****.
 
I think the main argument used, is that the company is allowing the radio to be used as a profit enhancer. If the employers want it on, they will be more happy working and probably perform better, making the company get more for their money.
 
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