Anyone hear of this?

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    UKJingles
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      Nothing to do with Jingles though?

      #104388
      IainJohnston

        Neil,

        UK licensing even includes, say, a hairdressers/barbers (a favourite target for the “authorities”)
        where if more than THREE people can hear a “commercially-available piece of music” being played
        then the location/premesis is required to have a licence (about $90 a year).

        So even inside a shop etc, only two people are allowed to hear the music for free, EVEN if this
        is a RADIO programme being played out (which is ALREADY licenced AND paying stiff airplay
        royalty fees to play each “piece of music” (someone once said Jon W used to get 10-cents
        for every time BBC Radio One played a JAM jingle, but I’ve no idea if that was true or not
        – c.f. the story supposedly about Jon’s plane)).

        The money is supposed to “go to the artistes & musicians” involved, but no-one knows whats
        been heard – a corner store won’t keep “playout logs” as a station has to do under its licence.
        Much of the cash is suspected to go into the “administration” of the licensing (aye, sure!)

        A shop that’s licenced gets to put up a little sticker (whoop-de-doo) on their door to say they’ve paid.

        And just like a “protection racket”, teams of checkers go around picking upon anyone they
        can find playing the radio to make them get licenced; if not, the shop or whatever can be
        fined £1000’s pounds for Copyright Infringement.

        Oh, and of course, there’s MORE than one licence – there can be several, e.g. PRS Performing
        Rights Society), MCPS (Mechanical something rights), and so on.

        So, technically “driving along with the car radio on, and the widows down”, and pedestrians
        being within audio range, means a driver could be taken to (civil) court for having their
        car radio too loud!

        #104392
        nleibo

          Wow!!!

          #104932
          Lindsay

            Think everything you say is true. I have heard that companies have had to pay for staff that might play something on a desktop PC that contains commercial music (even websites such as Youtube etc.) if ANY other member off staff can hear it.

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