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PRS reach deal with hotel industry over in-room music
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 25 November 2009
PRS For Music has reached a settlement with the hotel industry over a dispute which asked the question: does playing music in hotel rooms constitute public performance? Of course if it does then hotel owners will have to pay PRS and their like a royalty for any music services provided in rooms via radio or TV sets or other such whatnots.
Anyway, in a deal between the British Hospitality Association and the songwriters’ collecting society it’s been decided music in hotel rooms does, indeed, count as public performance, and both sides have agreed on a licensing deal for hotel room-based music services past, present and future. So that’s nice.
PRS’s Commercial Director Debbie Mulloy is quoted by Music Week as follows: “The provision of TVs and radios in hotel bedrooms is a clear benefit to hotels and their guests, and it’s good news that our members will now receive royalties for the use of their work”.
The boss of the BHA added: “This has been a very long standing dispute, but I am pleased it has been settled at last”.
