PPL, formerly known as Phonographic Performance Limited, is a UK-based music licensing company and performance rights organisation founded by Decca and EMI in 1934. As of 2008 PPL collected royalties for 47,000 performers and 3,500 record companies.
Its field of operation is distinct from the Performing Right Society, now called PRS for Music, founded in 1914, which originally collected fees for live performance of sheet music.
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