Howard

I know of at least one large festival which submitted detailed PRS forms only for these to be ignored as being too difficult (ie expensive) to process.

Regards arrangements of traditional songs - every performance is a unique arrangement, as I tried to show with the 300 friends + cat against nose flute accompaniment, and therefore by definition NOT a registered arrangement.

PRS as Richard says is a self appointed organisation run basically for and by the big boys in publishing. They frighten or attempt to frighten little people by pretending they are "official".