Payments of £300k have been made to PRS For Music by a dozen councils for the use of telephone 'on hold' music in the last three-and-a-half years.
This makes up part of a £6.5 million sum paid by 120 councils for background music overall since January 2010, discovered via A Freedom of Information Act requested by the Press Association. The rest of the £6.5 million pay-out covered background music being played in council buildings.
Despite these pay-outs, The Telegraph ...
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