Wednesday 5th January 2011 - Published by Robert Trigg - Communications Executive
PPL licensees may be owed thousands
Cost saving experts warns PPL license holders they may be entitled to a rebate, due to overcharging.
Any business broadcasting or playing recorded music or videos in public within the UK requires a Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) license to avoid a breach of copyright.
A new scheme of rates payable for a PPL licence was introduced in 2005, but following a legal case regarding the rates payable for playing in-house music brought against PPL and won by a consortium of businesses, new, lower rates will apply. These rates, backdated to 2005, are based on pre-2005 tariffs, which have been reinstated with a 10% increase and RDI adjustment.
This means that any company paying for a PPL license between 2005 and 2009 could be due a rebate, even if they no longer own the business. Over this five-year period, an overpayment could potentially have amounted to thousands of pounds.
However, rebates are not automatically sent to those entitled to it, they are instead required to apply for one.
Jessica Spavins, co-owner of The Rose of Denmark in Bristol, was thrilled with the ease of obtaining a rebate, saying:
“All it took was one phone call to Wofinden Warrack with our PPL account number, and we received a cheque in the post for £1600. The process could not have been more simple.”
Wofinden Warrack, business cost saving experts, have made numerous refund claims for PPL license holders and have a 100% success rate in gaining back overcharged money.
