FYI the PPL and PRS are separate companies but exchange information. If you have been contacted by one the other is very likely to follow.

Hi Conniff, I personally don't think they spell it out because they just make it up a bit as they go along. The internet is also a too new for them and streaming is a model they haven't really created any sort of pricing structure for. They seem to charge you WAY less if a stream is all it is. A stream where the user does not have any say in what plays next, they cant pause, skip or repeat. My company have got around the massive fees by distributing only unlicensed music via the internet - e.g. we buy an album or a load of songs directly from the artist rather than from the record label. Your music is licensed and someone collects royalties for it. Can you package all your music up into one continuous feed instead? You look like you are just linking to youtube which is ideal because you don't have to deal with any licensing stuff, however links will go bad after a while. Big subscription sites like Pandora or Spotify will just pay that massive fee for the usability of being able to pause, skip etc. Smaller sites like 8 tracks.com limit you to only pressing skip a certain number of times because they haven't got the capital for one of these huge licenses. What I'm pretty much saying is that there is no legal way to flexibly stream licensed music without paying the ridiculous fee.

Hi Jerry, I work for a company that seems to have been built off the back of people like yourself who have been hounded for PRS or PPL fees. I have had to try and work out how these license fees work which is why I have dragged up this old thread. To put it mildly the PRS / PPL have created so much confusion that no one has any idea what license fees they need to pay any more. If you need help from me to try and clarify this for you, I'll try to help. The general rule (that I can make out) is if you are BROADCASTING music (i.e. more than one person is listening to the music you are playing) then you have to pay both PRS and PPL.