The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123292 Message #2713492
Posted By: treewind
01-Sep-09 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Making the gig legal
Subject: RE: Making the gig legal
"That is law"
The only thing that is actually enshrined in law is the concept of copyright. PRS members sign the rights to their material over to the PRS who can then act on their behalf to enforce those rights. The form-filling procedure is not "the law", it's just the mechanism the PRS chooses to collect information needed to distribute royalties.
If you perform songs written by six different writers at a gig, it's a lot easier to write them down on a PRS form and pay nothing than it would be to contact all those writers and negotiate micro-payments with them. That's what the PRS is for.
Anahata