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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 about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
You may need a licence to use copyright music online or on mobiles
Financial help with sending your child to a specialist school for young musicians and dancers
Details of scheme to provide displaced people of Ukraine with Eurovision Song Contest 2023 tickets.
A guide to the national plan for music education and how to get help for parents, carers and young people.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
You need a licence to provide ringtones for downloading
Guidance on copyright licences and how copyright affects schools.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Travel tips and advice if you're going to a European music festival.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.
Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in
Sets out our vision for music education and how this can be achieved through partnerships with schools, music hubs, the music and creative sector, and others.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
Two expert working groups have been established to develop, support and champion practical measures to facilitate delivery of the core data set outlined in the metadata agreement.
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