Playing music in shop

The short answer is Yes - IIRC, PPI if it's broadcast over the airwaves, IMRO if played to a "live audience" in an entertainment venue (disco, club, dance, pub), shop, shopping centre, lift, etc

Once you pay the agreed fee you get a certificate and a sticker for the premises concerned.
 
Uhm, isn't that, more or less, the same? Why are there 2 public(?) bodies doing what appears to be the same thing?

Do you have to pay both if you just play the radio, or just play cds?
 
It's music that has gone out of copyright, so yes Bach and Mozart would be the sort of thing.

Just because the original is out of copyright, doesn't mean that it is automatically fair game.
Particular arrangements or performances of the work can also be copyrighted, so you would need to check the particular cd you plan to use.
 
From FAQ's on IMRO site

If commercially produced sound recordings (CDs, tapes or records) are being used as a means of entertainment, a licence from the record manufacturers is required. This organisation is known as Phonographic Performance (Ireland) Limited (PPI). Therefore, in the case of, say, discothèques, a licence is required from IMRO to authorise the public performance of the music and a second licence is required from PPI to authorise the use of the sound recordings. Royalties for the music are paid to composers and royalties from the sound recordings are paid to the record manufacturers.
 
Playing the radio might solve a lot of problems.

This may well be an Urban Myth, but was it not just playing a radio that started the whole thing?

In the US some years ago, a singer heard himself on the radio in the barber shop where he was having his hair cut, and realised that the owner was using the radio to entertain his customers, and should be paying royalties.
 
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