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?"

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Re:Time to put things in perspective

[Lazy Jones]

MUSIC SHOULD BE FREE

Music will never be free as long as greedy artists, even those without any talent or success, continue to support the RIAA and all the loyalty collecting institutions (GEMA in Germany etc.) in the vain hope that they, some day, will be chosen by the music industry to become rich.

Talk to any amateur artist, see how completely out of their mind they are in this regard.