Established in 1996, Almotech has grown to be the leading supplier of In-Store Radio, Jukeboxes and other entertainment equipment to retail outlets, pubs, clubs and leisure facilities. It was established by Vivian Dooley and Patrick O'Connor For more information check out our about us section here
The Zon@t in-store radio is your customized internal radio station which is played out across your store. Deliver an internally branded radio station that improves customer experience and promotes your brand and products at the point of sale. Distribute your audio content across a wide network so there is a uniform message throughout, all from one central location.
No, the Zon@t in-store music
system does not need to be connected to the internet 24/7 it will play music
perfectly independently of the internet.
However, we do recommend you plug in your system on a weekly/monthly basis
to ensure that your system can communicate with our servers and retrieve
the most up to date music and adverts for your business.
You can control your music playlists and manage your advertising by using
the online music manager but it is not essential for the Zon@t unit to work.
The Zon@t music system is not a streaming service and therefore it does
not consume large amounts of your bandwidth costing you money the Zon@t
system ensures you will always have music playing in your store no matter
what your internet connection may be like.
Copyright is a property right, regulated by statute (the Copyright and
Related Rights Act 2000) which gives the owner of a creative work (e.g.)
a song or a piece of music) the right to permit or prevent the use of that
work by others. Copyright confers on the creator of a work the right to
allow or prevent a number of 'restricted acts'. These restricted acts include
making a copy of the work, making the work available to the public and making
an adaptation of the work. Intellectual property refers to all intangible
property such as copyrights or patents.
This basically means that if you play this type of music in your store you
are liable to pay royalties for doing so.
Royalty Free Music at its core simply means music that has a single,
or one time licensing fee rather than paying royalties each time it receives
airplay.
This basically means that if you play this type of music in your store you
are not liable to pay royalties for doing so.
Phonographic Performance (Ireland) Limited was established in 1968 to
act as a central administrator of record company rights in the public performance,
broadcasting and reproduction of their recordings. PPI is owned by its members
- Irish and multinational record companies - and membership is open to all
record companies, big & small.
Record companies have a right to be paid whenever their recordings (CDs,
tapes, LPs, Mp3/iPods etc.) or music videos are played in public. Performers
have a right to be paid when sound recordings they have contributed to are
played in public.
PPI collects both of these payments in one single license fee and then distributes
the money to record companies and performers through RAAP (Recorded Artists
Actors Performers Ltd).
For more information visit their website
here
IMRO is a national organization that administers the performing right
in copyright music in Ireland on behalf of its members - who are songwriters,
composers and music publishers - and on behalf of the songwriters, composers
and music publishers of the international overseas societies that are affiliated
to it. IMRO does not represent the interests of record labels.
Music users such as broadcasters, venues and businesses must pay for their
use of copyright music by way of a blanket license fee. IMRO collects these
monies and distributes them to the songwriters, composers and music publishers
who created the songs.
For more information visit their website
here