VPL CLAIMS
Music Video Licensing with VPL
Video Performance Limited (VPL) is PPL’s sister company and licenses music videos when they are used in TV programmes and promotions including on music television channels.
What does VPL do?
VPL plays a vital role in ensuring that music video rightsholders are fairly rewarded when their work is used in public or broadcast on television (terrestrial and digital stations).
VPL’s main activities are:
- Enabling TV and Online services to use music videos in their programmes, promotions and channels showing back-to-back music videos.
- Licensing music videos for public spaces, such as gyms, shops and offices etc.
- Maintaining a vast archive of music videos and making them available for licensed use.
- After deducting operating costs, the licence fees collected by VPL are distributed to music video rightsholders.
- JUNE – VPL Royalty Payments (UK)
- SEPTEMBER – MTV Royalty Payments
- DECEMBER – VPL + MTV Royalty Payments (UK)