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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 Machine Games Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
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.
Find out about Bingo Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Find out if you should pay Bingo Duty on profits from games played in the UK, how to register and how to pay.
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Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Details of funding for multi-sport grassroots facilities projects in 2023 to 2024
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