Grassroots venues, direct licensors welcome new PRS tariff

The new tariff LP, which includes a specific festival rate, a direct licensing tool and the abolition of the minimum fee, has been welcomed by a cross-section of the biz

News By | 15 May 2018

AIF has got its standalone festival tariff (pictured is association member Kendal Calling) © Kendal Calling

Campaigners for direct licensing, along with grassroots venues and festivals, have welcomed today’s announcement by the UK Copyright Tribunal that it has approved a new popular music concerts (LP) tariff after more than three years of negotiations.

British performance rights organisation (PRO) PRS for Music launched an industry wide consultation on tariff LP, which applies to live popular music events, in April 2015. Terms of the new-look tariff – which had been levied at a flat rate of…

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