UK revenue payments

PPL distributes to record companies and performers the revenues that it collects for the use of sound recordings in the UK.

AS A performer YOU will only receive monies if :

You have contributed a performance on a sound recording that is in PPL’s repertoire; and
Your performance qualifies for the legal right to ‘equitable remuneration’
The sound recording on which you performed is exploited by PPL’s licensees in the UK. Click here for more information on the allocation of revenues between record companies and performers

A record company will only receive monies if it :

• Is a member of PPL. Click here for more information about how to become a member.
• Alternatively, where PPL has a repertoire agreement with another record company society in another territory, a record company can be a member of that society. Click here for more information on societies who have repertoire agreements with PPL
• Registers its sound recordings on the PPL Repertoire Database; and
• Controls sound recordings that are protected by UK copyright and are exploited by PPL’s licensees in the UK

PPL only controls and licenses sound recordings in its repertoire. A sound recording will be in PPL’s repertoire if :

• The sound recording qualifies for copyright protection, and
• The record company that controls the rights in that sound recording is a member of PPL (for more about how to become a member click here), or is a member of a record company society in another territory, with whom PPL has a repertoire agreement with.