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You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
If you own the copyright in a work, you have exclusive rights over certain uses of that work. These rights fall into two categories: economic rights and moral rights.
An update from the government on industry-led measures to improve player protections with regards to loot boxes in video games.
Guidelines for prisons on the licensing requirements when playing films, television and music in prison.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Find out about Machine Games Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
Stake limits for online slot games will be introduced for the first time in September, including lower limits for young adults, as the Government continues to roll out measures to protect people from gambling harms.
Recording artists, record labels, collecting societies, broadcasters and public venues are invited to share their views by 11 March 2024.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
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