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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.
Use this framework to buy musical instruments, equipment and technology from Department for Education (DfE) approved suppliers.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
A checklist for musical artists and accompanying staff working, performing or touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Southern Region, Judge J Dobson, Mr E Shaylor MCIEH on 18th June 2024.
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.
Product recall for musical guitar toy presenting a serious risk of choking, strangulation, and suffocation.
Guidelines for prisons on the licensing requirements when playing films, television and music in prison.
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