If you listen to the radio at work....

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best get out there and hire a lawyer:

A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work.
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The PRS claimed that Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers.

It is maintained that amounts to the "playing" or "performance" of the music in public and renders the firm guilty of infringing copyright.
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It doesn't look as though the "case" will be successful, but jesus is it ever pathetic.

So remember, if you ever hear a radio being played that isn't your own - SUE SUE SUE!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm
 
It feels like somebody dumped a bucket of acid into my skull.
 
i dont get it, if its on the radio...how can it be illegal?
 
I play the radio in my car. If it's a nice day I have the windows open. If I stop at a traffic lights, people waiting at the pedestrian crossing can hear the music. I must be broadcasting it!
 
reminds me of this :

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A court in Nebraska is being asked to cast judgement on the ultimate judge -- God.

State lawmaker Ernie Chambers filed a lawsuit Friday against the Almighty -- acknowledging he/she goes by numerous aliases -- for causing "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues" and other alliterative catastrophes.

The suit, Chambers vs God, asks the court for a "permanent injunction ordering defendant (God) to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terrorist threats" which affect innumerable persons, including Chambers's constituents.

It asserts that God is "the admitted perpetrator" of such acts and said that God's omnipresence gives the local Douglas County District Court jurisdiction in the suit, adding that God's omniscience eliminates the need to issue a formal notice of the lawsuit.

Chambers told local media he filed the suit to make a point about frivolous lawsuits frequently seen in US courts, citing a recent one against a judge.

He asked the court to award him an unspecified summary judgment against God, or, in the alternative, issue a permanent injunction against God engaging in the damaging acts cited in the filing.
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Stop whinging! Personally I LOVE how copyright law is being used to preserve creativity and protect people's rights.

Seriously though, think how many people could be attacked by stupid suits like this. Cab drivers, hairdressers, shop and cafe owners... The judge at least seems to be taking it seriously. The most worrying thing is the defence being used: 'I told the employees they shouldn't be playing their radios, guvnor.' Which highlights that the law currently sees this as a legitimate case, which people realise they have to defend themselves against. It boggles my mind.
 
You don't need a license to listen to the radio, it's already in the public domain... I don't understand who this 'law' is supposed to be protecting...
 
Most Cafe's pay the radio station royalties to play their station as the cafe's music. If a mechanic plays the radio station as entertainment for him/herself and allows other people to hear and doesn't pay; it just isn't fair. Some people may even go to this particular mechanic since they have a televison in the waiting room or radio etc; in a way, their mooching off those peoples broadcast.

It seems very ludicrous, but law is the lawl
 
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