PRS for Music has licensed Apple's cloud services; iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match, securing royalties for the 85,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers the association represents on a per play basis.

While this is the third licence issued for a cloud-based service by PRS it's the biggest so far.

"We have been at the forefront of licensing innovative digital music services for over a decade, encouraging the development of a diverse array of legitimate sources of music for ...