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Stream and show TV programming in your healthcare facility or system with a license that protects you from hidden copyright risk.
MPLC eliminates the copyright compliance gap that healthcare facilities and systems didn’t know they have – the unlicensed use of TV, movies and streaming on screens in offices, treatment areas, waiting rooms, and staff break areas. MPLC’s one simple license closes that gap and protects healthcare facilities from this unanticipated legal exposure.
Licensed entertainment helps make visits to offices, clinics, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities more comfortable while improving patient and staff experiences. With an MPLC license, you preserve the valuable content that helps patients feel at home and provides staff with downtime.
Under copyright law, when healthcare centers, facilities, and systems show copyrighted content (TV, streaming, videos and film), it’s a public performance that requires a license. The MPLC license protects you from risk.
MPLC removes the unknown copyright risk in the areas around your healthcare facility, center, or system. One simple license covers a lot of screens and retroactively resolves unintentional exposure.
Streaming content is a great way to entertain patients and staff, increase comfort, and help visitors relax. With an MPLC license, you ensure you’re doing it legally.
An MPLC License is an easy, smart investment. Licensing is simple, and the coverage is comprehensive.
It only takes five minutes to apply. One license and your office, clinic, or facility is fully covered.
One simple MPLC blanket license preserves and expands the valued content that improves patient and staff experiences.
Turn on those screens with peace of mind. With the MPLC license, you’re protected from copyright risk.
Many healthcare operations and facility teams are not aware that there can be a gap between accessing content and having permission to show it in a commercial setting. If TV, movies, or streaming content are shown anywhere in your facility, this is a public performance under copyright law. An MPLC license helps close the gap, so you are compliant. With a quick application, you can continue showing your patients and staff our rightsholder content with confidence.
Healthcare offices, facilities, and systems that do not have a license are subject to fines and damages of up to $150,000 per copyrighted work. This often happens without awareness of the law. An MPLC license removes that uncertainty and provides reassurance that your use of content is appropriately covered.
The MPLC Blanket License provides a simple, all-in-one solution. It covers a wide range of content from thousands of rightsholders, so you don’t have to track usage or manage permissions screen by screen, making compliance straightforward.
Yes. Just as ASCAP and BMI cover music use in public settings, MPLC covers TV, films, and streaming content.
MPLC has been in business for nearly 40 years and has provided licenses to thousands healthcare facilities across the US and in 33 other countries around the world. MPLC’s healthcare US licensees include Sutter Health, CentraCare Health System, and Cook County Health & Hospitals System. MPLC also works with healthcare associations to help their members continue to publicly show TV, news, and film content (legally) at their premises.
The MPLC Blanket License is a simple fee. You don’t need to tell us which movies you are showing or watching. There is no ongoing reporting or admin paperwork. The cost of a license depends on:
You can find a full list of all the rightsholders and producers that we represent here