WATCH: UMi Makes it Easy... to Play Music Legally

Learn how to keep your customers and staff feeling comfortable, relaxed or uplifted through playing background music – while staying on the right side of the law – with UMi Makes it Easy... to Play Music Legally hosted by Melanie Anderson from Background Sounds. 

There are so many benefits to playing background music in your business, from getting your staff motivated before greeting your customers to helping increase customer dwell time and spend. With music available on so many different devices and platforms, it’s easy to inadvertently fall foul of copyright protection laws and find yourself facing a fine.

We don’t want that to happen to anyone, so we asked Melanie Anderson, Co-Founder of Background Sounds to share what you need to know about your options for playing music in your business, what the typical costs are, and how you can stay on the right side of the law.

Melanie shares: 

• The benefits of playing background music in your business.
• What the law says about playing commercial music in your business, and what you need to do to be compliant.
• Some example costs of a PRS PPL Music Licence for playing commercial music in your business.
• What happens if you are caught playing commercial music illegally in your business, with examples of how this might happen and how fines are calculated.
• What royalty-free music is and how it can save your business money, while delivering the benefits of high-quality background music.
• Her top three tips for what to look for in a royalty-free music provider.