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Professional Mobile Disco & Wedding Disco
Splosh
Oct 13 2005, 08:55 AM
Anyone got a PPL Licence??? biggrin.gif

If so, what category have you listed under....

Mobile DJ is a bit obscure I think!!!! But I am not night club!!! huh.gif

Any ideas???

We are a Mobile Disco, but DJ on a regular basis, and not in the same place!!! The criteria doesn't cover that!!!!!

Splosh

2J's Roadshow
Gary
Oct 13 2005, 09:35 AM
One key deciding factor is ... the type of gigs that you do.

Taken directly from an info sheet on the PPL website (now much more user friendly than it used to be - but still a way to go).

QUOTE
"Under UK copyright law (the Copyright Designs
and Patents Act 1988) a PPL licence is
required when sound recordings subject to
our control are played in public.

By ‘public’ we mean any event except a family or domestic gathering. An event such as an office party, a Christmas disco or a Valentine’s Day dinner dance is public. An example of a private event would be a wedding reception or birthday
party.

Many people ask, “If it’s my CD, why can’t I play it whenever and wherever I want?” Owning a sound recording does not give them an automatic right to play it in public.

Very occasionally, when sound recordings are played solely to raise money for charity, PPL may waive the licence fee. If you think your event falls into this special category, you should mention it when you apply for your licence."



So...going by PPLs info (good move!) if you NEVER do a public gig, only private gigs, you dont need a Public Performance License. Where alot of people get confused is that the a party doesnt have to be "cash of the door" or "tickets sold by the DJ" to be classed as a public do. For example (again from PPLs own info sheet), an office party - despite having only those people who work together at the office, and not allowing people "off the street" in...is classed as PUBLIC and would need a Public Performance License.

Another point of confusion is that the license which harddrive users must have does not replace the existing Public Performance Licenses.




This is an except from the following info sheet: which is a downloadable PDF/Acrobat file


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