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How to avoid paying for PPL and PRS Licences to play music in your business

We know that playing music for the benefit of  staff and customers helps create the right atmosphere for any business, particularly a shop. Research shows that music:

Increases sales

Extends the ammount of time a customer spends in an establishment

Lifts the spirits of staff to create a happier work force

Yet in order to play that music you need in the main to have two licences. Yes that right two licences. Most people in business are aware that you will need a licence from the performing rights society, which varies in cost depending on the size of the premises and whether the music can be heard by members of staff only or members of staff and the public (customers).

Many small businesses when starting up are often unaware of this additional cost that they have to meet and when they are made aware, choose to ignore it and take the risk, stop playing music or pay up.

The Performing Rights Society are quite active in informing businesses of their legal obligations and in enforcing non-compliance, so many businesses pay the licence fee, thinking that they can then legally play music, only to find out a few weeks later that they also have to pay PPL

The reality is that PPL and PRS for Music respectively offer music licensing solutions to businesses and community groups within the UK to allow them to play or use music legally in public.

PRS for Music collects the license fee on behalf of song writers, composers and publishers. PPL collects the license fee on behalf of the performers and record companies. Together the two companies ensure that creators and companies who invest in creators are fairly remunerated.

So looking at this from a business point it is only fair that those responsible for producing the music are fairly renumerated for the music they produce.

Having said all this if you run a business and want to play music for the benefit of staff and customers but feel that the cost of the two licences is too expensive, then their are other options. You could write, play and record your own compositions or you could use music that has been produced and recorded by artists and companies not afilliated to the PRS for Music and PPL and for which you can obtain a licence to play the music within your business premises for a fraction of the cost.

One such company is Sibee Records . 

SiBee records offer a catalogue of suitable PRS and PPL avoidance music, brought together from around the world with regular updates and additions, maintaining relevance and a fresh feel good ambiance for customers and staff alike. Giving you a real choice which means that as a business owner you do not have to pay the PRS and PPL any more?SiBee Records has full legal authority to issue you with a license for the public playing of music supplied by SiBee Records.

If you have already got a licence from PRS and PPL then because you have paid the PRS & PPL in advance rather than arrears, then when you switch to SiBee Records you may be due a proportional refund in respect of the unused period no longer needed!

For as long as you are playing only SiBee Records music you will not have to pay a penny to the PRS or PPL.

Businesses already tuned into the SiBee alternative include:

Restaurants

Hotels

Local government

Independent retailers

Multiple retailers

Hairdressers

Beauticians

Public houses

Bars

Cafe’s

Offices

Factories

Gyms

Leisure centres

As well as many other individual and unique businesses.

So how much does it cost?

Here’s the great bit…. For new customers purchasing 5CD’s (cost of £59.95) or more their SiBee license is COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE for the first 12 months and then only £29.95 per year thereafter.

There is of course no obligation for new customers to buy 5 CD’s or more. Customers wishing to buy 1-4 CD’s simply pay the license fee for the first year. CD’s normally cost £12.95 if you wish to add to your collection.

There are no hidden costs.  We also like to keep things simple. So, no matter what the size of your business premises, or how often or how long you play the music for, the SiBee license cost is the same at just £29.95 per year.

After you have purchased your music from SiBee you are under no obligation to stay with them. You can revert back to the PRS and PPL at any time.

So if you want to save yourselves some money then have a look at SiBee Records and if you use the promotion code ‘Bras’ then you will get an a discount of 10% on the prices quoted.

We here at Just Bras had no hesitation in signing up to SiBee Records, our only regret is we didn’t hear of them earlier.

12semitones.com © 2010 : All rights reserved . Copyright persists in all photographs, video media, credits graphics and audio soundtrack. All media is property of 12semitones… All music is available on various 12semitones CD’s This video might seem a little controversial, but back in 2009, we kept hearing a wild, moronic claim from several bands (and one record label..), from the UK, to the effect that they were “allowed by law” to play any music they wanted, anywhere that they wanted, as long as the premises had a PRS licence… They all claimed that “The PRS had told them – so it must be right…..” – (over here that would be “Buma Stemra”…. (another story) – spit!. gnash!…) Moreover, they all thought that they were also free to arrange and record “their own version” of any composer’s music, without asking permission of the composer, or even knowing or caring who he/she was, and sell the recordings as downloads and/or CD’s – because somehow “the PRS sorts it all out.” This is “red-rag to a bull stuff”… grrrrr… There are so many ‘amateur’ bands playing at weddings and parties… playing all and any music, sometimes very badly, and they sell CD’s of their performances, and they don’t even care who wrote the music which they are playing! … As long as they get paid, nothing else matters…. And how many of these ‘amateur’ bands, playing other people’s music, declare their income to the tax-people ??? mmmm?? All music, always belongs to its composer…. Our “djb …

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