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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.
Guidelines for prisons on the licensing requirements when playing films, television and music in prison.
Rules and regulations for GCSEs (9 to 1) in music.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
You may need a licence from the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) if you make copies of music on to any physical product
The UK music industry has agreed to improve music streaming metadata
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