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Posted by pactdonkey on Jun-11-2007 18:02:

Right,Licenses

Right, i me and my mate are wanting to hold our own night, we were just wandering how far to go with licenses...as in do you need to have prs or ppl licenses to play the music live??
it will only be a one off event...
Any help apreciated.

Posted by stan229 on Jun-11-2007 21:48:

if you buy the song you have hte right to play it out

Posted by Storyteller on Jun-11-2007 22:05:

untrue.

A club has to pay rights to organisations in order to get a license to play music for a crowd. As a dj you don't have that right at all.

This could be different for other countries. In NL you need to pay Buma/Stemra... In the US probably ASCAP or something a like.

Posted by Stu Cox on Jun-11-2007 22:32:

A PRS licence is required. It depends where you're holding it but just about every venue who would let you hire it out for such purposes would have the required licence.

If you're holding it anywhere without the relevant licences, have a look HERE for info on the different licences, but I expect having to pay for a performance licence will make it so expensive to run that it's not even worth thinking about.

It is technically the venue's responsibility though.

Posted by Mmanu on Jun-11-2007 23:00:

quote:
Originally posted by stan229
if you buy the song you have hte right to play it out

wrong.

check PRS.co.uk mcps.co.uk

Posted by Freak on Jun-14-2007 11:24:

If it is in a bar or club they will have a PRS licence already

Posted by Nemesis44 on Jun-14-2007 14:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Freak
If it is in a bar or club they will have a PRS licence already

Arrrrr Jim Lad, and even if they don't be 'avin one it's not yer problem me harties...

Seriously though, if you are at a venue it is their obligation to make sure this is there. They are the ones in trouble if not. The other one to look out for is the digital licence if you are using Disableton Errrr I mean Ableton. Don't know how much they are enforcing this or of anyone who has been done over by this, but I'm sure it's a coming.

Depends on the location you are using.

And no, just because you pay for a track, it doesn't mean that you get the rights to play it in public.

Cheers
Nem

Posted by DRredLite on Jun-18-2007 14:16:

So what are the rules exactly ? Can anyone explain it?

I would like to know at point you KNOW you have a license to play a track at a club?

Does it mean you have to buy the track? What happens when you have a copy of it from someone else's set but they never provided a tracklist and there is no contact information to seek the track out.... we simply can never play the song because of the lack of information?

That doesn't really sound like a fair playing field , if the track is publically available for people to listen to there should be some reasonable method of obtaining a license for it.

Posted by Spoonz on Jun-18-2007 21:16:

provide a sample to the appropriate part of the forum and u might have someone who can tell u the name of the track for u to then go and buy it.

u could still not excuse playing it without any rights because of the lack of information

Posted by xtr3m on Jun-18-2007 21:28:

Laws differ from country to country. In Italy it's illegal to play music from rerecorded media.