OK so far, *IF AND ONLY IF* later posts are relevant only to the PRS part of that "PRS/PPL" pairing. The PPL has zero relevance to copyright.

Graham if you read the following you will see that you do not know what you are talking about. You could apologise - but I do not suspect that you will.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/management/pplp03.shtml