Schools in the UK increasingly use recorded music as part of their day-to-day curricular and non-curricular activities. Some of this usage is licensed under the Educational Recording Agency (“ERA”) licence which covers the use of sound recordings in broadcast television and radio programmes by schools for teaching purposes. Additional uses such as the copying and streaming of music by schools are not however covered by the ERA licence.
PPL is now looking to create a new licensing scheme to allow schools in the UK to copy and stream Sound Recordings (recorded music controlled by PPL) as part of their day-to-day curricular and non-curricular activities, provided that such uses are educational and non-commercial and aimed primarily at pupils and teachers and /or parents, carers and relatives of such pupils.
Full details of the new licence can be found in the consultation document below:
Schools digital licence consultation – October 2024
PPL is keen to receive feedback on its proposed new licensing scheme.
You can respond using the consultation response form available below but you do not have to use the form.
If you have already responded to a copy of the consultation document provided via CEFM, who will be administering the scheme on PPL’s behalf, there is no need for you to provide an additional response.
Please send your response to schools@ppluk.com
Electronic responses are preferred, but if it is easier for you, you can send your response by post to:
School’s Digital Licence Review
C/O Richard Stewart, Head of Dubbing & Tariff Development
PPL, 1 Upper James Street
London W1F 9DE
PPL is seeking responses by 1 December 2024.
We will review all responses provided by the deadline above and then finalise our views on the new licence.
