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Morning all,
At work we all have mobiles with various work apps which I look after with management software etc. As part of our efforts in supporting Staff working at home or in remote sites (lone working) I'm keen to allow a music streaming app, We are creating a page on our intranet for playlist suggestions, tune of the day etc.
Aside from the technical considerations like data use etc does anyone have any idea about licencing etc ? ie we might allow Staff to listen to things for their own entertainment, ie not being played in public, or is playing something on a company phone in the office being played to the "public" ?
I dont mind paying for app/account if reasonable but not licencing/fees etc. Just over 200 people all working out in the community/home.
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Who pays the phone bills? If they are all on a work central contract and you can just allow the phones to install/use and pay then I see no issue at all around licensing.
I believe radios played to staff need a PRS licence? Good place to start, have a look on their site.
I use Apple Music on my work supplied iPhone. I pay for it myself.
I would imagine if you're happy to pay for 200x Apple / Spotify / Deezer subs then there would be no problem with licensing, you'd effectively be paying for their subscriptions.
I don't think you can share a single sub between 200 users though.
It becomes tricky when someone is playing music via their phone in a work environment from a licensing perspective.
Just allow users to have spotify or whatever on their phones, if they want to use it they can use their own accounts or sign up themselves, if they don't want it they can just ignore it. You can share playlists (just like singletrack does).
Then it is really just about data (and I assume most will be connected to either the company wifi or home wifi most of the time) and useage policy.