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PPL publishes video guide to music licensing for gyms

By | Published on Friday 8 August 2014

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The UK record industry’s collecting society PPL has published a new video guide on gaining a licence to use music in fitness clubs. This follows on from a more general guide to music licensing for businesses, published with PRS For Music in June.

The rights body’s Tariff Development Executive, Mark Steel explains that licensing for fitness centres has changed recently, following negotiations with the industry: “PPL [now] licenses the fitness industry for the use of music in two ways; firstly and importantly, for the use of music in fitness classes, and also as background music for use in fitness centres. It’s a big transformation for the industry and has involved a lot of changes to business models, but it’s provided a clear means for people within the industry to use music the way they want to”.

He added: “People recognise that it is important that they purchase a PPL licence because then the performers and record companies are paid fairly, but also it means that those instructors and centres can gain the benefit of using original artist music in their classes”.

So that’s nice, isn’t it? Though I don’t know why it’s only recorded music that gets a look in. Why’s there no live music in gyms? This is clearly a key market that no one’s tapping into yet. It’s the future of the industry! This is it, guys. This is the thing that’s going to save us all. And just you remember who came up with the idea.

Anyway, if you want to know about the ins and outs of playing CDs and shit in gyms, then here’s the video:



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