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Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued
MLCT writes "The Performing Rights Society, one of the UK's royalties collecting societies, has taken a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees are alleged to have been listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'. The PRS is seeking £200,000 in damages for the 'performances of the music' which they claim equates to copyright infringement. The judge, Lord Emslie, has ruled that the case can continue to hearing evidence, commenting that the key point to note was that music was 'audibly blaring from employee's radios'. Where do the extents of a 'public performance' end? Radios on in cabs?"
seriously?...um...seriously? SERIOUSLY? hold on, let me think about this one a little more...............seriously????
I never knew watching the guys wash your car counted as a performance. I suppose I'm more of a performing arts snob than I thought....
If they lose, sanity prevails.
But if they win, it provides precedent to sue anyone driving by with their car stereo too loud, so at least we get something out of the mess.
I mean, holy shit, that's possibly the stupidest thing I ever heard.
When the hell is someone going to sue the idiots with the car stereos I can hear a mile away?!!!
Damn right -- get the hell off my lawn.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Or have to pay because a person can smell baking bread at the bakery.
Kiss
My
Ass
Seriously. WTF do you want? Payment for each and every set of ears that might be in close proximity to a set of speakers that is playing stuff you've already been paid for.
Let me reiterate...
Kiss. My. Ass.
This is already illegal.
I buy at least 4 copies of each CD, with a separate player and headphones for each. When friends come over, we synchronize playback with the familiar 3-2-1 countdown. Are you saying you don't follow the procedure?
you have to contect your elected representatives
I have no idea how to contect them, but hopefully it's a process that involves a lot of pain on their part.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I've called the police several times because I could hear the music of the tenant in the downstairs apartment! Nothing ever happens. I was hoping for a noise violation, but this seems much sweeter...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
What about second hand smoke?
I think the tobacco companies should sue
everyone for enjoying their products at
second ( or even third ) hand.
emt 377 emt 4
And lo- the absurdities continue. How much more of this legalism must we endure before their system implodes? It seems that the implementation of the myriad of laws is shifting around faster than the rules in a game of "Calvin Ball". You would expect that at sooner or later, these smirking litigators will eventually take a bite of their own poison, but time after time it seems they get away with their asinine behavior, and move on to plot another ludicrous litigation against people who just don't want to have anything to do with them.
Blessed with all the brains that God gave a duck's ass, and twice the charisma.
What's next? Perhaps the newspaper will sue you if you hold a copy so somebody can read over your shoulder?
Teen Angel - a Ghost Story
First the ignored us.
Then they laughed at us.
Then then fought us (costing many of us fines of several thousand, and some people were fined everything and live in squalid bankrupcy to this day)
Then we win (except for everyone sued or taken to court and/or the cleaners by the system that supported the big companies)
Um... Yay?
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Somebody should compensate me for having to listen to the idiotic station that the jerk in the next cubicle listens to!
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
Well, if we are to learn anything from that old story, then we should keep paying them with the modern analogue of the sound of coins in a shaked purse. Emailed images of scanned dollar bills for the appropriate amount should do the trick!
Does this mean I can sick the RIAA on the guy in the car in the next lane for blaring his bad taste in music at everyone within a thousand yards of his car? Could be a useful precedent.
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
I'll ... I'll ... I'll ... set the building on fire! I'll ... I'll ... put strychnine in the guacamole!
So jam it. A nice, dirty, square wave oscillator should do the trick.
Why would you bother doing that when you can just call APRA and inform them that of an ongoing copyright violation? ;)
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
As long as there are un-purchased Bentleys out there, lawyers are forced to explore these legal issues. Seriously, their backs are against the wall on this.
-- Posted from my parent's basement
They are technically committing an act of terrorism...
They are willfully subjecting other people to an airborne chemical agent known to cause harm.
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Are you joking? I would have modded you +1 Funny just for this. Surely you must have heard the name Boston Tea Party? And a local affair? According to many historians it helped spark the American Revolution.
What about "+1 Whoosh"?
>This has nothing to do with the artists. In fact, the artists will never see a penny of this.
Not my understanding. PRS log every track and when/where it was played - they wouldn't bother if it didn't get to the artist. In fact I knew someone who used to make a fair living starting a multitude of 'bands' with similar names and relying on typos when keying in data for picking up a few quid here and there e.g. calling himself U3 and self publishing a single called 'New Years Eve' then picking up a % of U2/New Years Day income.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Maybe I'll start writing down the license plate numbers of cars from which loud music emanates and report them to the RIAA. That'll show those obnoxious twits who think everyone within a 100-yard radius wants to hear their hip-hop music. Maybe the RIAA would sue the cars' owners for illegally performing the music - and the makers and installers of car stereos for enabling said activity. Ahhh, the possibilities... Maybe I can get Rush Limbaugh to sue my co-worker because he listens to Rush's show every day and Rush would consider it a "public performance".... :)
Seriously, this does seem kind of ridiculous....
Ever heard of the British East India Company? It had to do with some added tax/levy or something being added to tea. I think it caused a bit of a riot in boston, local affair, easy to miss but some people were upset about it.
Yes, I am from the US of A, and I can tell you all about your little event there. That was Custer's Last Stand, which was a legendary battle between Texans and Mexicans during the Civil War. The whole dirty affair was caused by yellow journalism. It was a sad battle, napalm was used all over the place. Eventually we had to end the war by dropping a nuclear bomb. We commemorate that day every year on September 11. Most Americans don't know much about it, thought, since it happened almost seventy years ago now.