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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.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
The Government is introducing legislation to allow people to use video-conferencing technology for the witnessing of wills being made.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Find out if you need a licence to show films - public screenings, using film in schools, choosing a licence, penalties for breaching copyright
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Rules for UK and EU broadcasters and video on-demand services
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Music industry voluntary code that is a commitment to standards of good practice in relation to music streaming.
How to use a think aloud study to evaluate your digital health product.
A checklist for musical artists and accompanying staff working, performing or touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
How to make a detailed record of what happens during a user research session.
Check if you can get your van, HGV or trailer's IVA test done by video call rather than in person, how to prepare for the test, and how it works.
Find out how you should prepare for a telephone or video court or tribunal hearing and what to expect on the day.
Summary of the government's ongoing programme of work addressing key issues identified by the DCMS Select Committee’s Inquiry into the Economics of Music Streaming, including an indicative timeline for upcoming milestones.
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