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24 Jan 09 - 08:53 AM (#2547770) Subject: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton I don't want to go through the history of PELs. I am much more interested in current enforcement policy. Without naming establishments, for obvious reasons, do most places with live folk music, ie clubs, singarounds, sessions or whatever, have PELs? Do we have any sense of what local authorities are doing to places that put on live folk music? Do local authorities go looking for places who put on music with out PELs? I guess their will be massive regional variation but does some pattern emerge? L in C |
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24 Jan 09 - 08:58 AM (#2547776) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Rasener Faldingworth Live has a PEL |
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24 Jan 09 - 09:56 AM (#2547799) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,John from Kemsing It is my belief here that the council office responsible for it`s implementation have turned a blind eye, having superficially reviewed the circumstances of our "Sing & Play" Evenings. |
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24 Jan 09 - 10:37 AM (#2547821) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge The pub where my current occasional Sunday song/sessions are held is permitted live music on Sundays until 7 pm, under its licence under the Licensing Act (technically not a PEL). |
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24 Jan 09 - 04:22 PM (#2548111) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: The Barden of England What about if the Premises has a licence and has permitted live music until 7pm on a Sunday, but it is an acoustic session and the premises can hold no more tha 200 - doesn't section 177 come into effect so that the 7pm cut off has no validity? John Barden |
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24 Jan 09 - 07:06 PM (#2548245) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge No: it's not a condition of the licence, it's the duration. |
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24 Jan 09 - 07:09 PM (#2548250) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,PeterC OK, carriage return didn't take me to the next box! with regard to the section 177 question it really needs a lawyer and probably some case law. If the licensee put the cutoff into their application then I suspect that it might stand. If the local authority insisted then the question is if that licence term can be ignored of if the licensee has to use section 177 to get it corrected. |
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24 Jan 09 - 08:12 PM (#2548308) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge I am a lawyer. Trust me! |
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25 Jan 09 - 06:44 AM (#2548569) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Nice one Richard, I needed a chuckle Les |
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25 Jan 09 - 11:46 AM (#2548761) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Rog Peek Yes, that response made me chuckle too Rog |
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26 Jan 09 - 09:40 AM (#2549376) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,John from Kemsing On a not dis-similar vein, the following was told to me by a friend who runs some businesses, one being a workshop where he and three employees work. He has been badgered by mail for some time about applying for a licence to allow his employees to listen to the radio while working and has not responded. He was visited the other day by persons behind the correspondence pointing out he was committing an offence having his radio on in the workshop where anyone in earshot could hear it, employee or visiting customer. He immediately took the radio, cut the plug from the lead, binned the pair of them and, in his own inimitable fashion, requested they leave his premises saying his employees would be allowed to listen on their own personal head sets or car radios. Such was his strongly stated objection to their prescence and his invitation to leave that he was advised "If he carried on like that he could be prosecuted". What could he be done for? Verbally abusing a "Jobsworth"? If it is about performing rights, could he claim exemption by having only news programmes or Radio 4 talks and plays on? Have not the BBC already paid the artists fees? Can somebody tell me what is going on in this country? |
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26 Jan 09 - 09:52 AM (#2549388) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge The case law supports (or perhaps, "tends to support") the PRS about wireless at work. The removal of the wireless ends any infringment of copyright by that route. It does not undo any past infringments. I cannot envisage any court being likely to accept that it was only talk shows that were on. It would be so unusual. I am surprised that the word "prosecuted" was used. Normally PRS enforcement for copyright infringment is civil not criminal and one can only be "prosecuted" for a criminal offence. The provisions in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("CDPA") about criminal infringment are fairly hard to read - but are not normally invoked save against knowing pirates. Perhaps he indicated an intention to assist the expedited departure of the PRS people? |
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26 Jan 09 - 10:04 AM (#2549402) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Liz the Squeak People tend to use 'prosecuted' when they mean 'enforced'... as an employee of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, we are supposed to use the word 'enforced'. Trouble is, most people don't understand what it means and 'prosecuted' has that ring of heavy handed authority about it that makes the average person sit up and pay. If a radio programme is being broadcast in a public place of business then it requires a license. As your acquaintance was using it in his business premises, then the officers are within their rights to ask him to cease and desist, and take into account any previous infractions of performing rights laws. It does not matter what station, what format or what media - if it can be heard by a member of the public, it is 'broadcast' and subject to those laws. Performing Rights do not cover just music - someone had to write those scripts, actors had to record those plays and someone had to read that news report. They all count as a 'performance'. LTS |
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26 Jan 09 - 10:31 AM (#2549418) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Richard & Liz, I am much indebted to you for your succinct and wide ranging explanations. I have, naively, believed all the while that having paid the annual licence fee I, and everyone else was entitled to enjoy the airwaves, the BBC having paid all performers for their contributions. This is obviously not the case and it does now give me a different view of what Public Braodcasting Service is about. I go with tears in my eyes. |
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26 Jan 09 - 01:22 PM (#2549520) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge I don't think I'd go along with all of that, Liz. PRS only enforces rights in its members' works - but unscripted live shows in any event have no copyright scripts |
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26 Jan 09 - 01:32 PM (#2549529) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge PS - it is however right that the PRS administers rights not only in musical works but also in litereary and dramatic works - it is in their memorandum and articles. |
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26 Jan 09 - 06:42 PM (#2549790) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Don(Wyziwyg)T I wish the PRS would badger the idiots who pump copyright tunes into my ears whenever I am asked to hold in a telephone call, and the providers of elevator music. Unless of course it's decent folk music. Don T. |
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26 Jan 09 - 06:49 PM (#2549797) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: MaineDog RB, If you want us to believe you, tell us you are a lawyer. If you want us to trust you, tell us you are not a lawyer. MD |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:18 AM (#2549972) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge Yes, Maine Dog, I agree with your second point. It was why I put what I did. Regrettably there are some lawyers that I neither believe or trust. |
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27 Jan 09 - 03:31 AM (#2549980) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton PELs and folk music anybody? L in C |
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27 Jan 09 - 04:12 AM (#2549994) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane I don't think it matters for a PEL what kind of music it is. It is a (council) licence allowing music (or other entertainments) be performed in public. If the music is in copyright then you also need a PRS licence, which is supposed to pay copyright holders their fees for performance. Two completely separate things. (And another completely separate party is the MCPS, which deals with fees for recording copyright material. Look for the MCPS logo on CDs) |
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27 Jan 09 - 04:52 AM (#2550016) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Thanks Pavane, i think I get your point. When the Law was changed endless threads suggested the collapse of Folk Clubs in the uk. Perhaps this was because Folk Clubs tended to use small rooms in pubs that didn't put on much entertainment at all and so would not need any kind of special license. My question is have we in general survived PELs and if so is that because of compliance on the part of most pubs or smaller Folk Clubs in smaller rooms just ignoring the problem and carrying on with out PELs? Do local authorities come looking or is their tacit agreement to let sleeping dogs lie, so to speak? L in C No names no pack drill? |
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27 Jan 09 - 06:19 AM (#2550043) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST, topsie I am a bit confused about the meaning of 'public'. Does it mean that a radio playing in a workshop at the back of a shop, which could be heard by customers buying its products or bringing items for repair, counts as 'public', whereas a workshop on an isolated farm, where the radio would only be heard by people who worked there, or a secure warehouse that members of the public are not allowed in, would not require a licence? If the only criterion is that a member of the public can hear it, maybe private houses with their windows open require a licence. And what about car radios? |
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27 Jan 09 - 07:17 AM (#2550054) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane PRS have recently obtained a fee from a car repairer because his staff listened to the car radios in vehicles they were repairing. They will claim that if it can be heard by a customer (Or any member of the public) then a fee is required. |
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27 Jan 09 - 07:37 AM (#2550063) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge The only case tending to support an argument that the workforce themselves are not the public is a very old one (might be 1909) about nurses, and you know how much judges like nurses! I think Kwik-Fit took a big fall on the point in Scotland quite recently. |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:16 AM (#2550078) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Gedi I heard something on Radio4 a few weeks ago about having to have a licence (for copyrighted material I think) if you have a radio playing where anyone other than yourself can hear it. This effectively gets any factory where employees (or indeed the company itself) is playing a radio, also it covers shops where staff and/or customers can hear the music. It seems that the authorities who look after these things are clamping down on it, and I know for a fact that the factory where I work has been 'asked' to get a licence to cover such radio broadcasts. However, the performing of live music in a pub is something different and I'm not sure on the position here. What if all the music played is out of copyright? Therefore there can be no copyright fees due can there? Ged |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:24 AM (#2550086) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST, topsie That would mean that if I have my radio on in the kitchen and my friend can hear it from the living room I need a licence. And if there are two of us in the room, do we need a radio each? |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:26 AM (#2550090) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST, topsie ... and headphones, so we don't hear each other's radio? |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:33 AM (#2550097) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Gedi I'm no expert but I dont think this applies to households (ie non-businesses). Your TV licence covers you for when the next door neighbour pops in for a cuppa - mind you so it should for the price of it! Ged |
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27 Jan 09 - 08:54 AM (#2550107) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST, topsie ... b-b-but if I don't have a television, I don't have a TV licence ... |
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27 Jan 09 - 10:23 AM (#2550150) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane TV licence is not related to the PRS licence. I don't recall seeing anything to say that PRS only covers business, either... Don't give them ideas! |
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27 Jan 09 - 10:34 AM (#2550155) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST, topsie In any case my home is my workplace as I am self-employed. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to listen to the radio while I work. |
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27 Jan 09 - 11:21 AM (#2550173) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Sorry but ................... My question is have we in general survived PELs and if so is that because of compliance on the part of most pubs or smaller Folk Clubs in smaller rooms just ignoring the problem and carrying on with out PELs? Do local authorities come looking or is their tacit agreement to let sleeping dogs lie, so to speak? L in C No names no pack drill? |
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27 Jan 09 - 12:28 PM (#2550221) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Nick The pub I go to most weeks did not originally have a licence but subsequently did when he was visited by the council who had been told about the music by someone in the village (which was very neighbourly) I believe that Sam Smiths didn't used to in the days when they had music - I know that the one in Farlington near us definitely didn't. |
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27 Jan 09 - 12:31 PM (#2550225) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Didn't Sam Smiths decide not to have PELs altogether? |
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27 Jan 09 - 01:24 PM (#2550274) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Folkiedave It wasn't particularly PEL's. It was anything that needed paying for and any kind of licence. That includes Sky, PRS licences, MCPS etc etc. Because there i Sam Smith's pubs only sell Sam Smith's products. They sell lager, gin, whisky etc made by Sam Smith's. It has to make some sort of business sense - beer is around £1.30 a pint. (Not a typo for you southerners - one pound thirty pence). |
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28 Jan 09 - 04:29 AM (#2550788) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Dave do you know of any clubs in Greater Manchester that have had trouble with PELs? L in C |
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28 Jan 09 - 04:41 AM (#2550792) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: meself Bleak House: The Musical. |
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28 Jan 09 - 12:49 PM (#2551143) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, I have puzzled on this "meself", so to speak but don't get much understanding, please help. L in C |
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28 Jan 09 - 01:26 PM (#2551181) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Folkiedave Don't know Manchester very well at all. Not for a long time anyway. |
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28 Jan 09 - 02:09 PM (#2551209) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton How about Greater South Yorkshire then Dave, Les |
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28 Jan 09 - 03:25 PM (#2551277) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: meself Sorry, Les; it was late at night. That was a feeble attempt at a humorous comment on the increasing legal interventions and complications attending the making and broadcast of music ... |
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28 Jan 09 - 03:48 PM (#2551306) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Ah, got it now ........... the brain cell is tired and emotional City 1 Newcastle 0 but who knows. I am tempted to assume from the responses that PELs have not been the problem that had been anticipated? Cheers Les |
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01 Feb 09 - 04:11 AM (#2554236) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton I am tempted to assume from the responses that PELs have not been the problem that had been anticipated? Stoke 1 City 0 much gloom. Cheers Les |
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01 Feb 09 - 04:40 AM (#2554242) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: eddie1 I notice a brief reference to MCPS (mechanical copying of material) An interesting example of them grabbing you by the short hairs is if you are doing a radio broadcast, Ofcom, who issue the two broadcasting licences required, also require you to record your output and retain it for 42 days. This is so that if anyone should contact them with a complaint about anything from bad language to inciting a riot, Ofcom can ask for a recording of the particular broadcast then make a decision. OK, you're required as a condition of the broadcasting licence, to record everything therefore you need an MCPS licence to record it. This on top of a PRS licence! Eddie ps. Heard a rumour that PRS are looking into the subject of recorded music being played in crematoria. I guess they need a PEL licence as well! |
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01 Feb 09 - 05:03 AM (#2554248) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Let me be blunt: A "friend of mine" is concerned that if he advertises a session in a pub without a PEL the Council will find out and stop the session. Another "friend of mine" is concerned that a pub with a session might not realise it needs a PEL and if it does it might stop the session. Please advise my "friend" L in C |
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01 Feb 09 - 06:45 AM (#2554299) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: The Barden of England LIC - There is no such thing as a PEL anymore, the Licensing Act 2003 stopped all that. If your friend did not 'tick the box' for licensable activities then I believe he will be acting unlawfully and would be liable to a huge fine or even a 6 month prison sentence. If he did then the 'Premises License' will show that permission and all should be fine. There are others here who know far better than I though so I could be slightly out. Basically if it's not on the 'Premises Licence' then it's not allowed. John Barden |
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01 Feb 09 - 07:06 AM (#2554309) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Thanks Bard, is the 'Premises License' is easy to access? L in C |
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01 Feb 09 - 07:45 AM (#2554337) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane Yes, I think the potential maximum fine is £30,000 |
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01 Feb 09 - 07:56 AM (#2554348) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton I'll get me coat L no longer in C |
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01 Feb 09 - 09:14 AM (#2554404) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: The Barden of England L no longer in C, the Premises License should be on show at the premises, stating who the 'Premises Supervisor' is, the licensing times and any 'Licensable Activities'. It will show on there. John Barden |
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01 Feb 09 - 10:48 AM (#2554464) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,Confused of Kent Would someone, preferably from a county or town council, please explain why a bar full of people enjoying a social drink, a chat, a bit of banter and perhaps a game of darts presents a Health & Safety hazard as soon as a couple of entertainers or more do their stuff together? Fire hazard? Possible riot? Trampling under foot when leaving? Possible aural damage? Some time back a spokesman for the licencers, when asked what do the tenants and customers get from the council for having paid the licence fee trotted out the H&S excuse, not very convincingly. |
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01 Feb 09 - 01:44 PM (#2554584) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton I understand how you feel C of F, I think most of us feel the same. I don't want to go over old ground but large scale musical events need Risk Assessment. I think the cut off point was made far too low and folkie events have suffered. But I am much interested in how people have survived. L still in C |
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01 Feb 09 - 02:16 PM (#2554620) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Richard Bridge It is also a total lie to assert H+S because the HSWA would apply anyway in licensed premises. |
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03 Feb 09 - 02:36 PM (#2556380) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: BB Les, if you (or your friend) is going for a one-off event, the best thing is to get a Temporary Event Notice (TEN), which costs about £20. You can have ten or twelve (can't remember) of these in the same place a year. This means that, if entertainment is not on the Premises Licence, the event would still be legal, and it can't be refused without an extremely good reason. If, however, you want a regular session, the Premises Licence must include the entertainment permission. If it doesn't, it can be added - at a price. We were quoted £120 to add permission to show films to our village hall's Premises Licence. This is a one-off, not annual. It might be that the premises concerned will have to go through hoops to obtain the permission though - that depends on your local Council. The entertainment section is usually for music, and does not include, for instance, drama. So legally it doesn't enable you to do a mumming play (without a TEN), but our local Council doesn't seem to worry too much about that - but we don't advertise a performance anywhere where they don't have at least the entertainment permission, and that has to be somewhere *very* remote, where local government officers are unlikely to be! In practice, most of the landlords locally are very aware of the need for the entertainment permission, and don't let sessions or anything else happen without it. Hope this helps. Barbara Hope this helps. |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:52 AM (#2556801) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton Thanks Barbara that's very clear L in C Currently |
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04 Feb 09 - 04:38 AM (#2556829) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: bubblyrat It's all beyond me !! I had no idea you could be "done" for having the radio on at work !! Our "Folk Club", viz Marlow Bottom Acoustic,meets every wednesday,at four regular pub venues in the Marlow - High Wycombe area.None of the landlords seem to be the least bit concerned about the legality or otherwise of our little "performances",even letting us use amplification in certain circumstances.At all of these venues,we perform in the bar,not in a "back room ". I recently asked Richard Thompson personally if it was OK with him if Karen & I continued to perform some of his material, and he sportingly said that it was fine,providing that we didn't make a CD of it and sell 50,000 copies. I replied that I doubted,in that case,that we could sell even 50 copies ,to which he laughed (he does,you know !!) Similarly, I don't think that Briege Murphy is too fussed,whilst Kate Wolf would be tricky,and we haven't met Karine Polwarts yet in order to ask her. Last week, at our "session", a radio presenter from a local FM station recorded the entire performance with the object of playing some or all of it (it was VERY GOOD !!)both on the internet and during Marlow Regatta fortnight.He wasn't exactly shaking in his boots !! See you in jail !! Roger... |
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04 Feb 09 - 05:01 AM (#2556841) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Les in Chorlton It crosses my mind that if any of us are a bit too successful, a bit too public or a bit unlucky then we could fall foul. L in C With his head down |
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04 Feb 09 - 07:50 AM (#2556934) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Nick Les I think your friend may be in the same situation as my friend. We have played a weekly session/singaround at our local pub for several years after Sam Smiths moved us on. When the licensing changes came in some years ago the owner of the pub decided he could save a few quid and not have the hassle of potentially being looked at by not ticking the box on the form (he doesn't like forms and stuff like that). We then played for a period of time unlicensed and "got away with it" until someone in the village got in touch with the Council and shopped us/the pub. The owner then had a twitchy time wondering whether he would get fined or what draconian measures might be enacted. The reality was much less than he had dreaded. Reapplying for a change to his premises licence was very straightforward I believe and the costs then were the going amount for a pub of the size. To my knowledge there were no fines etc involved and the chap from the Council was reasonable and easy to deal with. The weekly raffle now easily pays his licence and life goes on (legally). If your friends situation is similar to my friends situation then by all means PM me and I'm sure my friend would speak to your friend and let him know the detail of what happened if that helps. Councils may be different so your friends council might treat him differently but if it would help do get in touch. Nick |
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04 Feb 09 - 08:03 AM (#2556945) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane Have you got a licence for the raffle? (!!!) |
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04 Feb 09 - 08:14 AM (#2556954) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Nick I'll check when I go singing tonight. :) I'll check for TV, driving, broadcasting, marriage, shotgun and dog licences at the same time... |
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04 Feb 09 - 10:19 AM (#2557038) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane Seriously, if you sell raffle tickets to the public, you need one! But the good news is dog licences were abolished years ago. |
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04 Feb 09 - 10:46 AM (#2557060) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: nickp That's 7 shillings and 6 pence I've no longer saved by only having cats... |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:18 AM (#2557085) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Folkiedave Roger, Speaking as a radio presenter your local FM station is on very dodgy ground IMHO!! Mine would not let me do it - nor would I want to. Unless you can guarantee none of the material is copywrite. (The Thompson sutff for example!!) A few years ago Sheffield City Morris made a film. We spent all day eating and drinking at the film company's expense - did our bit (which ended up on the cutting room floor) and then (casually like) said the the producer and director "What about copywrite for the music we played?" They went white!! |
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04 Feb 09 - 12:42 PM (#2557161) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,Albert Jobsworth Dear Bubblyrat, I am most interested in your venues in the High Wycombe area. If you would let me know where I could enjoy the music sessions I would be most obliged. A.Jobsworth |
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04 Feb 09 - 01:09 PM (#2557181) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Simon G 18 nonths ago I got dragged into a meeting between our landlord and and council licencing office. It turned out that when the 2003 licencing act came in the brewery had automatically applied for licences with very retrictive hours. Once this happens it is difficult to change because it gives an opportunity for those nearby to object. What amaxed me was that the licencing department had approved whatever was applied for initially and there had been no objections. If at that stage the pub had applied for live music 24 hours a day it would have got it. From what I remember there is no extra cost for live music on the licence. There is a cost for changing a licence and because the process encourages objectors the pub can end up with less than it has already -- risky. I suspect as a breed landlords are not very good with licencing departments and suffer as a result. The biggest problem for sessions and singarounds in pubs is that if you play one or more melodies or arrangements whose author has licenced it through PRS there is a £10 (inc VAT) fee per session to them - this makes local authority licences relatively cheap. Its difficult to believe a co-operative of composers has come up with such a bar to the humble singaround or session. |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:28 PM (#2557286) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Howard Jones "Speaking as a radio presenter your local FM station is on very dodgy ground IMHO!! Mine would not let me do it - nor would I want to." Why not? Years ago, the BBC had a folk radio programme (Folkweave) which consisted entirely of outside broadcasts from folk clubs. I can remember when they came to my club (Blackmore, in Essex). I suppose they must have asked for details of the songs performed, but I don't recall exactly. I was sent an impressive BBC contract running to several pages, paying me £5.00 (less 5p National Insurance - that's my pension sorted then) and promising me untold riches for international repeat fees, which sadly never materialised. |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:54 PM (#2557307) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: wyrdolafr I recently read an interesting/odd thing regarding the origins of entertainment licences in a book about Newgate prison. In the early 18th C. there was a mini-boom of political satire, much of it coming from the Tory 'Scriblerus Club' who gave Robert Walpole's Whig's some pretty heavy stick. This group of satirists included people like Jonathan Swift, John Gay and Alexander Pope so there was some influence there. Understandably, they weren't too popular with Walpole and the Whigs* who wanted the Scriblerus Club shut down and to stop political satires from being performed. They tried to do it by exploiting 1714 Vagrancy Act which more or less defined actors as vagrants and therefore theatres were really nothing more than a gathering of tramps! Theatre owners were subsequently charged for allowing/encouraging these vagabond get-togethers. Obviously the theatre owners weren't pleased and saw it as the nonsense that it was. The upshot of this was that 1737 Theatrical Licensing Act came about where theatre owners had to gain an entertainment licence before plays could be staged. *great band name for someone! |
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04 Feb 09 - 04:04 PM (#2557315) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: Folkiedave The artists would have produced a set list. Whoever they were listing song and publisher. Which is what I do for my radio show. |
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05 Feb 09 - 06:53 AM (#2557812) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane I have one of those Blackmore Folkweave sessions on tape somewhere... I have been known to go there, too, before I moved to Wales (but not since 1982) |
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05 Feb 09 - 06:55 AM (#2557813) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: pavane And come to think of it, I recorded it from the radio when I was living in Dubai - so you should have had ONE repeat fee. |
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05 Feb 09 - 07:25 AM (#2557838) Subject: RE: Public Entertainment Licences From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge I `ad that Albert Jobsworth in my cab the other day. I knew `e was on official business `cos `e `ad `is `igh visibility jacket on and a clipboard. `e said, "I say, my man, would take you me to "h`Apple and h`Apricot" in `ackney please. I`ve got to check whether they got a Public h`Entertainment Licence or not `cos we`re told they `ave a folk club there each fortnight." I said, "What`s it cost and what`s it for then?" `e said, " Its £300 per h`annum its purely to pay our wages!!" Whaddam I Like?? |