ProDub – 1 Year On
July 2, 2009 by Ian
It has now been a year since ProDub (Professional Dubbing Licence) was launched and to coincide with it’s first birthday a new pricing tier has been announced for existing licence holders.
The “ProDub Top-Up” priced at £100 will cover DJ’s and other acts for upto 1,000 copies and is only available to existing licence holders. DJ’s looking to purchase ProDub for the first time will not be eligibile to the top-up until they have held their licence for a year. If you think that you will exceed 1,000 copies then you should purchase the next available tier which is £250.00 for upto 5,000 copies.
Other improvements to the scheme include a shiny card issued to all existing licence holders. These are reportedly going out in the post this week so if you get one, please let us know!
The PDF licence you receive also gets a facelift in that the wording “expiry date” is removed from the licence and your licence does not ever expire. Once you have bought the right to produce copies of your originally owned music, those copies are licenced for life, assuming you fall within ProDub’s T&C’s.
ProDub licencees are assured that the money they invest in the ProDub licence goes directly to the artist (except the small %’age that gets taken up in admin fees).
For more information on ProDub, please visit their website – http://www.produb.co.uk
Good news about the expiry date and the cards.
However both strike me as fundamental and I wonder why they were not available from the start.