(Sirio Canós Donnay, part of the London Podemos circle, explains: "People who say that are talking about United Left – it has really good people, but it's really old, it has really slow structures. Podemos couldn't possibly have had a blanket agreement with them, that would not have been democratic").
The general or blanket agreement states that no INGO can work independently in Nepal and must work with a 'partner NGO' and with SWC.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said: "In this instance, a small payment was made additionally to our music blanket agreements for this trailer".
She argued that the campaign had a legal right to use the song under its blanket licensing agreements with the two main public-performance societies, BMI and ASCAP, which pay royalties to members.
It was also common for contracting officers to use "blanket purchase agreements," allowing them to open a line of credit with a company with little more than a promissory note, much like a customer at a small-town grocery store.
The total amount of money awarded so far for this concert series, including the amount remaining on Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts, is $678,470.
Some of these performers have Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts good until 2012 or 2013, indicating that this concert series is planned to continue at least through the next two years.
On February 25 , 2007 Hikmat signed a "blanket purchase agreement" with the U.S. military, an open-ended contract for trucking services.
If it was an online radio it would have to adhere to the US blanket licensing agreement Pandora adheres to and pay for all the music used on the site.
A spokeswoman for Romney said that though the song was played without permission, the use was legal because it was covered under a blanket licensing agreement.
