Nothing wrong with a bit of classical.
Maybe with a bit of dub-step thrown in

Nothing wrong with a bit of classical.
I think it's totally stupid to be honest, the PRS thing ruins office atmosphere if the company isn't prepared to pay for it.
Maybe with a bit of dub-step thrown inor drum and bass
I don't see why a company should pay a license for it
They called us a while back, asked me all the questions and just answered no to all of them (even though the radio was on in the background) and that was pretty much it![]()
Same! We play it in the back shop and you can just hear it out on the shop floor....so it would be pointless.
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:
If music is made available to employees or visitors to the premises by any other means, PRS for Music would apply the relevant tariff.
- 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.
but a private office as far as i know doesnt require one as it can be argued its personal use if its just a radio in the corner someones brought in, IF the company hooked up a internal speaker system maybe then they would have to pay as they are providing it to you.
Sorry to hijack the thread, as regards to playing music in a shop, is a licence required, or does it depend on the music, also would this be the same for playing videos or game trailers/demos?
You can't have one radio playing to a group of people, but if you have a radio per person it's fine![]()
Ok, so today, we got a group e-mail sent out by HR, informing us that we're not allowed to listen to any music in the office due to Licensing issues....
Its not like that, its about using music in business, home and your car are not affected. If your a taxi or a limo though then its different.So I can't listen to the radio in my car if I have passengers in it?![]()
Motor vehicles
PRS for Music make a charge for our licence where music is played in vehicles in which, or from which, a service is provided. This includes, but is not limited to, taxis, minicabs and chauffeur-driven cars, buses, coaches, minibuses, election vehicles, ice cream vans and food vans, advertising vans and similar vehicles.
Jesus, how petty.
Its not like that, its about using music in business, home and your car are not affected. If your a taxi or a limo though then its different.
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.