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Licences, IPRS and PPL: Who Issues What

Which body licenses the song, which licenses the recording, what a venue in India actually needs before it plays anything, and the honest state of a copyright-society register that is messier than any textbook admits.

Topic
Music Business
Level
Intermediate
Format
Guide
Time
13 min

A café owner asks what they need to play music. A wedding planner asks whether the DJ's laptop is their problem. A broadcaster asks who to pay. All three questions have the same shape, and the answer starts in the same place it always does: which copyright is being used?

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