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AMONG the many responsibilities and obligations of a dance school are the music licensing fees. Most music is subject to copyright, even if it is just being played via a phone for a class in a church hall, and indeed few teachers would deny the musicians their right to earn a living.

However, ensuring your school is covered correctly has until now been a confusing minefield – or “a complete muddle”, as one teacher observed – with a

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