Daniel Jones successfully delivered our first webinar for 2023 on PRS. A big thank you to Daniel for delivering an enlightening webinar. It was great to see everyone. We’ll alert members when the recording is available. We’re pleased to announce our next 2 webinars. Please have a look:- Make Music Day – Speaker Rob Guest (Co-Director,…
We all have our copyright problems. Luckily the IAML (UK & Irl) Trade & Copyright Committee is here to help! ‘T & C’ works on behalf of IAML (UK & Irl) members and the music library community more generally to provide advice, training and updates on aspects of copyright and intellectual property law and related…
These days library spaces are used for all manner of events, many of which will involve the live performance of music or the playing of sound recordings. Both of these activities require a form of licence. Collective management organisations exist in order that music users don’t need to individually obtain permissions from rights holders in…
29 October 2014 saw the implementation of legislation to facilitate the use of orphan works in the UK. An orphan work is defined as a copyright work or performance for which one or more of the rights holders either cannot be identified or cannot be located, thus making it impossible to seek permission for use of…
A process that had its roots back in 2010 when the Prime Minister announced that IP laws would be reviewed to make them fit for the digital age, has proceeded through an independent review of intellectual property, the Government’s response, and an extensive consultation of key stakeholders, now culminating in a suite of five statutory instruments,…