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Guidelines for prisons on the licensing requirements when playing films, television and music in prison.
You need a licence to use copyright music in TV programmes
Find out if you need a licence to show films - public screenings, using film in schools, choosing a licence, penalties for breaching copyright
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.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) licensed and regulated commercial television services in the United Kingdom (except S4C in Wales) between 1 January 1991 and 28 December 2003.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
Internet-based TV channels on smart TVs could be brought in line with existing Ofcom content rules on traditional TV
This series brings together all documents relating to Television exports series
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Frazer addresses the Royal Television Society
You can get a free TV licence if you're 75 or over and you get Pension Credit, or a discount if you're blind or in residential care - who qualifies, how to apply
Guidance on copyright licences and how copyright affects schools.
Get help to classify electrical equipment such as communication equipment, cameras, and their parts and accessories.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Channel Four Television Corporation.
Annual returns, rules and other documents related to the employers’ association the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television Ltd.
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