It is a legal requirement to obtain a PPL licence to include recorded music in a radio or TV broadcast. The permission of the copyright holder(s) of each recorded music track a radio station or TV channel uses is therefore required before that music can be broadcast.
As a broadcaster, you would have to obtain permission from potentially thousands of different copyright owners before being able to use the recorded music in the way you want.
A PPL licence is a quick and easy way of obtaining the permission of thousands of different copyright owners to use their music tracks in your broadcast output. Our licences allow you to play virtually all commercially-released recorded music available in the UK simply, quickly and legally.
After deduction of our operating costs, the licence fees are distributed to the performers and recording rightsholders we represent. We do not retain a profit for our services.