Bars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return.
I worked for a company that was signed up for a similar service in the United States.
We had a blanket license for music, for which we paid a little over $1 million each year. This was around 2001.
A couple of times a year, we'd pull an intern aside and his job for the entire day was to sit there with a pencil and steno pad and write down all the music we used. That was typed into a report and sent to the licensing company which determined how much each artist would get paid.
These days, with advances in music recognition technology, it's probably all very automated and more thorough.
I worked for a company that was signed up for a similar service in the United States.
We had a blanket license for music, for which we paid a little over $1 million each year. This was around 2001.
A couple of times a year, we'd pull an intern aside and his job for the entire day was to sit there with a pencil and steno pad and write down all the music we used. That was typed into a report and sent to the licensing company which determined how much each artist would get paid.
These days, with advances in music recognition technology, it's probably all very automated and more thorough.