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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Such performances are almost certainly authorised through licensing.
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Absolutely. In the UK, for example, any establishment which has music has to have a licence from the Performing Rights Society. Each year, the PRS distributes those licence fees to rights-holders (although I don't know how they determine who gets how much).
If you go into pretty much any pub in the UK you'll see a sign up over the door or the bar which says something like "These premises are licensed for the performance of music".