30 Nov
2011
30 Nov
'11
8:24 p.m.
On 30/11/11 15:13, Renato wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:46:26 +0000
Lorenzo Sutton<lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Presumably because they hadn't paid for a licence to publicly broadcast
the music.
Just because something is done by a charity or not-for-profit
organisation doesn't mean that the law doesn't apply to them. It makes
perfect sense to me -- if TV or radio have to pay royalties when
broadcasting, it seems only fair that other public broadcasters (whether
over the airwaves or via a public address system) do the same.
Q
I once heard a story of Italian
collecting society SIAE 'inspectors' bursting in at a no-profit
charity party who were simply playing CDs on their stereo and fining
them some hundreds euro!!
if the CDs were original, what was the problem?