Music licensing laws to change
The RSCM reports that changes to the law mean that you will no longer be able to play pre-recorded music in church without a PPL licence.
The restrictions don’t affect weddings, but they will affect Emerging/Fresh Expressions/Alternative Worship groups who like to create spiritual and worship experiences from art, installations, video and recorded music.
A PPL Licence would cost you an annual fee, if the venue you meet in doesn’t already own one. Read here for more:
RSCM – Music licensing laws are changing.
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Doesn’t that RSCM report explicitely state that religious services are excluded? So if there is any problem at all, it comes down to the definition of what a “religious service” is – which, of course, is a very interesting question… Who could possibly decide, whether what others do is “religious” – sometimes we aren’t even decided ourselves, are we?
hmmm. It might, but I think there is an ambiguity about what qualifies, which is why the RSCM is inviting people to contact the NCVO to close the loopholes.
Bureaucracy stomping all over creativity