Joining PPL & VPL
PPL & VPL issue licences to users of sound recordings and music videos. The revenue collected is then distributed to our record company and performer members.
Registering a record company’s repertoire and joining PPL & VPL is free and ensures that company will get its share of the revenues collected. In 2008 licence fee income for PPL was £127.6 million which after operating expenses meant £110.3 million was available for distribution to record companies and performers. For VPL, in 2008 licence fee income was £12.3 million which after operating expenses meant that £10.8 million was available for distribution to record companies.