Performance Rights Organizations:
Who Are These Guys and Why Do
We Have to Pay Them?
Almost all communities are playing music for
resident listening, and/or TVs for resident viewing. However, most communities aren’t aware
that if music, or TVs are being played for residents, a license may be required, and if a license
is required and the community doesn’t have
one it is in violation of copyright law.
Many communities are discovering that copyright licenses are
required, because more
communities are being
notified by performance
right organizations
(PROs) that the community’s current
music and TV practices are in violation of copyright
law. Specifically,
performance
rights organizations are notifying
apartment communities that they
are infringing on
copyrights, and demanding that the
communities start
paying licensing fees.
18 | TRENDS • MARCH 2015
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