Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> PRS Threatens Woman For Playing Radio To Her Horses Without
> Paying A Licensing Fee
>
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>> The latest (sent in by a few folks) is that PRS has now
>> threatened a woman who plays classical music to her horses
>> in her stable to keep them calm. She had been turning on the
>> local classical music station, saying that it helped keep
>> the horse calm -- but PRS is demanding £99 if she wants to
>> keep providing such a "public performance." And it's not
>> just a one-off. Apparently a bunch of stables have been
>> receiving such calls.
>>
>> Obviously, this is not a case of random excessive attempts
>> by PRS to squeeze more money out of people. It's become
>> systematic. The group seems to believe that playing music in
>> almost any situation now constitutes a public performance
>> and requires a licensing fee. You just know they're
>> salivating over the opportunity to go after people playing
>> music in their cars with the windows down.
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>
> http://techdirt.com/articles/20090327/1113014276.shtml
Back in 1972 I remember a farm hand, who brought a portable radio
to listen to whilst attending to equipment repairs in a poultry
farm building with 40,000 chickens. So he was doing a public
performance with a Colosseum "audience", LOL.
It was acts like a garage, workplace where several did not mind
one listening to popular tunes on a radio, that made these tunes
popular in the first place.
Me thinks the entire industry top leadership has gone mad,
attempting to garner as greed shaking down the lowliest of users.
A good example was a woman who was being taken to for a YouTube
video with a poor quality recording of popular song playing in
the background, of her toddler.
Records Industry gone wild, I guess.
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HPT
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