What does the scheme exclude?

• If you want to distribute an Irish TV programme that already contains our members music then you will also need to apply for a Secondary Exploitation Licence (link).
• International use (for Irish programming made by Irish IPCs).
• Adaptation, alteration, sampling or arrangement of a members’ commercial music without prior approval.
• Reproductions of music as parodies.
• Use of music in a deliberately derogatory, obscene or demeaning way to its composer, author or the performing artist.
• Advertising and sponsorship.
• Use of commercial music in title/credit sequences.
• Single artist programs.
• Prior approval commercial works.

Anything excluded from the blanket licence must be individually licensed.