Non-Core Licence Area mandate choices
Opting-out of any licensing areas will mean that you need to license all of your repertoire in the relevant area directly with
music-using customers outside of MCPS. This will involve dealing directly with licensees and negotiating fees where
appropriate, issuing your own licences, chasing for payment, enforcing your rights etc.
Please complete this form and send to membership@prsformusic.com before 3 July if you would like to opt-out of
any of the Non-Core Licence areas set out in the table below. If we are not informed of any opt-outs, MCPS will continue to
license your rights in these areas.
Please note that some of these licence areas already have provision for members to give their prior approval before MCPS
issues licences for uses of works. For example, prior approval is currently needed before MCPS issues licences for all
Premiums, Novelties and ‘single artist products’ (as defined) in both the Karaoke and Cover-Mount licensing schemes.
Refraining from opting out does not mean that you lose these prior approval rights.
Existing Mandate choices: MCPS members will have notified MCPS already as to whether they want MCPS to issue licences
on their behalf in relation to multimedia products and for individual licensing (e.g. for TV advertisements and corporate
videos). Please let us know if you wish to change your existing mandate choices in any of these areas.
Please contact our Member Services team on 020 7306 4848 or membership@prsformusic.com for further information.
Non-Core
Licence
area
Please type ‘Member’ if
you wish to opt-out
from MCPS licensing for
the relevant type of use
Description
Premiums
Products used for marketing promotions as an incentive to acquire other
products or services.
Digital
memory
devices
Products for storage of digital data which are supplied with some part
(but not all) of that storage capacity pre-loaded with music content, but
excluding any product which falls under any other licence or specific
scheme (e.g. one of the AP schemes).
Novelties
Toys, gifts and other products which include a musical element and are
available for retail sale to the public.
Music quiz
games
Music quiz games available for sale to the public.
Non-core
Covermounts
Cover-mount licensing covers music used on free CDs and other products supplied
to the public with a magazine or newspaper for sale to the public in the UK. The
non-core element and ability to opt-out relates to the relevant works on
any cover-mounted product for which a single member of MCPS controls
50% or more of the works on the product.
Non-Core
Karaoke
Karaoke licensing covers the use of music and graphic lyrics in karaoke products
made in the UK, for sale to the public. The non-core element and ability to
opt-out relates to the relevant works on any karaoke product for which a
single member of MCPS controls 50% or more of the works on the
product.
Non-Core
Exhibitions
This licensing area covers recordings made for use in public exhibitions. The noncore element and ability to opt-out relates to the relevant works within an
exhibition for which a single member of MCPS controls 50% or more of
the works in the exhibition.
Full name of Member company……………………
Date…………………………
Form completed by…………………