Pamra, the UK society charged with collecting royalties for performers, is facing a crisis over the non-distribution of millions of pounds of royalties.

UK musicians are anxiously waiting on the results of crisis talks over the society, whose problems are understood to have prompted some European societies to withdraw from co-operating with Pamra, so denying UK artists their royalties. The difficulties are also undermining advanced plans to create a new joint body to collect and efficiently distribute royalties for performers.