satellite broadcasters, cinema chains or even film clubs in village halls, will have their own PRS licences, and make their own returns. That is why broadcasters require producers to make such detailed music cue-sheets for the programmes they make for them and/or sell to them ö see the various Programme as Completed forms in the "Managing the Production Process" section of these pages.

If in doubt about this, check with the broadcaster or distributor with whom you are working.

Synchronisation rights are one of the categories of music copyright included within the more general definition of "making copies of

the music and issuing copies to the public". In the production of television programmes, "synch rights" means the right to include the music in question in your programme, and to make all the recordings of it necessary to enable you to do so.

Synch rights are usually controlled by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS), which, like the PRS, represents the composerâs interests in this area. The range of music covered by the MCPS is virtually the same as that covered by the PRS.

If the synch rights in the music you want to use are not controlled by the MCPS, they will almost certainly be controlled by the musicâs publisher.