Please note that the following information on copyright is intended as a guide only. The information is not a comprehensive statement of the law and is not intended to constitute legal advice. If you have a question not covered by those below, please do contact us.
Yes, you can copy up to a maximum of 5,000 legitimately purchased tracks in total to the school’s servers to be used for educational purposes. A fee of £70 per additional 1,000 tracks or part thereof is payable. Please contact us on ppldigital@cefm.co.uk / 01494 836 258 and we will issue the relevant invoice. Please note that the tracks will only be treated as being licensed once the invoice is paid in full.
Yes, these can be hosted on the school’s website for parents and relatives to view.
Yes, you can stream it directly from the school’s website or via an online meeting platform such as Zoom, Teams or Google meet.
Yes, you can charge parents/relatives to watch the live streaming of school events as long as any fees charged go entirely to the school or a charity supported by the school.
Yes, the following educational platforms can be used within lessons and/or extra-curricular work by teachers and pupils. Teams, Zoom, SharePoint, Goggle meetings, Google classroom.
Yes, the use of any Disney tracks and/or characters in school plays, end of year concerts, gymnastic routines etc requires written permission from the Walt Disney Company Limited in advance of any use.
No, the licence only covers the school for the teaching of the curriculum and for events and supporting activities that occur with persons with a direct affiliation to the school and its pupils as part of the day-to-day life at the school.
Any usage by individuals not directly associated with the school and/or operated on a commercial basis are not covered under the licence.
Yes, the licence covers each school to produce a maximum of 1,000 CDs/DVDs containing a maximum of 120 minutes of music each year.
Yes, you can include clips of school events that contain music such as concerts or plays.
You can also use recorded music as a soundtrack to a prospectus or school tour but cannot use more than one track by any artist or do anything that suggest an artist has any affiliation to or supports the school.
The licence allows the school to post videos or clips of school events that contain music, such as a school play, on social media. It does not however allow you to you to superimpose any tracks over social media content if the track was not originally being used at the time of the event taking place.
For the Licence Year commencing 1 April 2025 the fee is 50 pence per pupil enrolled in the school at the beginning of the Licence Year.
Yes, however some sources may prevent uploading copies on multiple devices. Please refer to the source provider for guidance on copying restrictions.
A digital licence is not required, but a public performance licence will be required if the school does not already have one.
The school will require a public performance licence if it doesn’t already have one. The instructor will need a ProDub licence in order to copy music and their own digital database https://www.prsformusic.com/licences/live-performances/dj-mixes
There is no specific limit as long as they adhere to the other terms of the licence.
Yes, they should buy licences directly if they need them.
If it’s a video of a school activity and contains music recorded as part of the event, it is covered, but music cannot be added as a soundtrack to an activity that did not originally include the music. Schools should ensure that the video does not imply that the artist in any way endorses the school and/or activity.
Yes
PPL does not have the rights to license the use of recorded music on social media platforms. Such platforms are usually licensed directly by the relevant recorded rights holders. In most instances there should be no issues with posting small clips of school events or activities containing music on social media as the platform will have a licence that covers such usage of music. Occasionally however, you may find that such posts are blocked by the platform.
If it’s a post of a school activity that contains recorded music – it is covered. However, you cannot
a) add music as a soundtrack to an activity that did not originally include the music, or
b) specifically link the post to encourage parents/relatives to choose that particular school for their child, or
c) imply that the artist in any way endorses the school and/or activity.
Yes, as long as only the school has access to the server.
This will be allowed when the adaption is being created by a pupil as part of a recognised course and where the production is required to show competence in the use of equipment/processes. The resulting creation must only be used for this purpose and must be destroyed once any course/assessment has been completed. Where such tracks are produced, the copyright which exists in any resulting mixed/edited tracks remains with the PPL members whose sound recording(s) are used in the creation of these track(s).
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