PPL and PAMRA are now one and the same. Even when they were two different organisations PAMRA received payments on behalf of their UK members from PPL THE collection agents for the UK.

Some performers might not realise that in the USA a recording could be played over radio stations without incurring any kind of PPL type costs and therefore the performers on the recordings received zilch apart from exposure. I don't think things have changed in the last few years but I could be wrong.

Incidentally I think that Paul Simon probably is a member of ASCAP in the US and not PRS but again I could be mistaken.

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