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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.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
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Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
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You need a licence to reproduce the words of hymns or worship songs for collective worship at schools
Find out if you need a licence to show films - public screenings, using film in schools, choosing a licence, penalties for breaching copyright
Music industry voluntary code that is a commitment to standards of good practice in relation to music streaming.
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.
Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
Take goods temporarily out of Great Britain using ATA Carnet, Returned Goods Relief, declaration by conduct, oral declaration, Duplicate Lists.
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.
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