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Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties

Posted by chrisd on from the humming-also-billable dept.

jonerik writes "According to this story from Ananova, Finland's Supreme Court has ruled that taxi drivers must pay royalty fees of about $20 annually if they play music in their car while a customer is in the backseat. According to the article, 'Lauri Luotonen, chairman of the Helsinki Taxi Drivers' Association, says the ruling is likely to force most drivers to keep their radios off.'" This includes if they play the radio, which ostensibly already pays such fees.

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  1. Jennifer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love you so much.
    Goodnight to you, too.
    Sweet dreams.

    1. Re:Jennifer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I love you so much.
      I'm leaving you for a finnish cab driver.

      Goodnight to you, too.
      It's daylight in Finland, I was lying to you.

      Sweet dreams.
      I made my dreams come true, now I just sleep. Sorry, I hate you know. Please don't ever call me again. You are a pathetic loser trying to woo someone by posting on /. Go get a job and a car, then move out of your parents basement, it will go further for your next girlfriend.

  2. First post, what the hell. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP.

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gotese gets first post

    1. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The first one (not on /., of course) was probrably by Yakof Smirnoff (sic), the Russian comedian who defected to America.

      "I love America, you can always find a party! In Soviet Russia, party always finds you," was one of his lines.

    2. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      IN SOVIET RUSSIA we steal other people's slogans and we do not bring them to you by evil corporations.

    3. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Right. You think it's from Fark. Moron.

    4. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA by JTMON · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, it's not even the correct saying either. But AC's are the majority players in the special olympics, but we already knew that.

    5. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      OMFG, somebody shoot me now, please...

  4. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp der derm de derm te terdely tum dumb

  5. Some luck lady... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man some chick doesn't know that she's going to be hooking up with who we know as "The Goatse Guy"

  6. Re:For listening..... by jred · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thanks, I had almost forgotten that the new episode of the Osbournes was coming on tonight :)

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    jred
    I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
  7. Re:pay up taco by Das_Trench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your comments belong to Slashdot... ...for great justice move zig...

    ok, im really sorry I just had to post that.

  8. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  9. Re:In Soviet Finland... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I sincerely hope that that 'soviet' is a joke..

  10. Re:Oops! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the fuck do you manage to post a reply to the wrong article?!?

  11. Re:This only made it to the frontpage because... by ttsalo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but back in the seventies, when we still had the ice age, the reindeer-pulled taxi sleds sure were a smooth ride. Sadly the progress has mostly gone backwards since then. Less polar bears on the streets is a plus, though.

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