Listen at work
Some good advice if you listen in the workplace
If you're lucky enough to work for a company who play Absolute Radio in the office, there's a few things you should be aware of regarding music copyright.
The Performing Right Society (
PRS for short) are entitled to charge businesses just for having Absolute Radio on at work. When music is played/performed in public, they act as the agent who collect the performing royalties. Don't worry though, we don't see a penny of this money and we've put together the following list of tips on how you can help avoid the charges:
- Get your boss to give you headphones/personal radios or…
- Ensure that only three employees can hear each radio at any one time e.g. don’t put the radio out on a tannoy for the entire factory floor to hear, give each work station their own radio using partitions, fake walls etc to reduce the audible area or...
- Get your boss to argue that machinery/office layout etc means that a smaller number of people hear each radio – the factory might have 100 workers, but not all of them might be able to hear the radio. According to PRS, only people who work within an area where the sound recordings are audible should be counted.
- PRS may phone your workplace to check if you should be paying for a licence. If anything about the call is misleading - or worrying - or unusual - let us know and we will make the bodies aware at a senior level.
The best way to listen to Absolute Radio at work is via the
Absolute Radio Player. There's no need to worry about those PRS fees if you plug in your headphones!
Find out why
music works and visit the
PRS website if you want more information on music and performance copyright.