I work for a company who supply music systems to businesses, and some of our clients wanted to reduce their copyright costs, so we began investigating ways to do this. We discovered that there are a huge number of artists and composer who don't like 'PROs' (Performing Rights Organisations like PRS and PPL), and want to allow people to play their music without having to deal with these organisations.
We have therefore started offering their music to our clients, at a cost that is usually around ?5 more per month than our PRS/PPL service would be, but the artists and writers are paid a share of what we take, rather than the site requiring PRS and PPL licenses. The first client we took onto this service saves around ?185k per year, and even the smaller companies can be looking at savings that would equal the expected spend of several hundred of their customers, so it makes a huge difference to their bottom line.
Offering a service like this also supports those artists and writers with the guts to step out on their own and try and control how their music is used and distributed. We're also not spending millions in 'admin' every year, so there's a higher percentage of the money getting back to the music creators.
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Delivering music from non-PRS artists
I work for a company who supply music systems to businesses, and some of our clients wanted to reduce their copyright costs, so we began investigating ways to do this. We discovered that there are a huge number of artists and composer who don't like 'PROs' (Performing Rights Organisations like PRS and PPL), and want to allow people to play their music without having to deal with these organisations.
We have therefore started offering their music to our clients, at a cost that is usually around ?5 more per month than our PRS/PPL service would be, but the artists and writers are paid a share of what we take, rather than the site requiring PRS and PPL licenses. The first client we took onto this service saves around ?185k per year, and even the smaller companies can be looking at savings that would equal the expected spend of several hundred of their customers, so it makes a huge difference to their bottom line.
Offering a service like this also supports those artists and writers with the guts to step out on their own and try and control how their music is used and distributed. We're also not spending millions in 'admin' every year, so there's a higher percentage of the money getting back to the music creators.