You Don’t Need To Go To A Performance Rights Association

In a recent retail times article it was stated that there are only a few places to purchase a license to use music in your retail store.

Well, its not true. If you exclusively choose to purchase music from royalty free organisations such as Ambient Music Garden, you don’t have to purchase a license from a performance rights association because you are not using the royalty free music illegally by playing it in your store. That is what it was designed for and what you purchased the right to do via your royalty free partner.

Choosing royalty free music means that you can choose from a range of businesses online and mix your play list to suit your needs. But whatever you do, don’t mix this music with music from CDs you picked up off Amazon or from your local music store, if you still have one. You will not automatically have the right to play this music in your store, unlike the royalty free music. Mixing them will mean you will have to pay for a performance royalty license so that the artists and copyright owners of the music on the CD get paid for that type of use of their music.

If you have any questions about this please get in touch and we can chat.

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