arstechnica.com — The Performing Rights Society (PRS), which collects royalties for musicians in the UK, has accused Lancashire police of committing copyright infringement by playing music in police stations and to callers on hold without an appropriate license.
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sndreamJun 14, 2008
OMG, copyright infringement?PRS and RIAA should fire a injunction to shutdown the police station.
aristotle0dudeJun 14, 2008
I buy all of my music but I'm sick and tired of this lawyer crap. In fact, if this sort of thing happened to me, I would take a smelly s**t in two bags and send on to their lawyer and the other to their head office with a nice letter suggesting that they eat s**t and die.This sort of thing makes paying customers like me feel like turning to piracy out of spite.
eleeteJun 15, 2008
I apologize for being so rude. I just cannot believe that someone would be so naive to make the starving artist defense here. Check your facts though. These lawsuit campaigns are NOT to raise money for starving artists. Rather they are designed to use copyright as a punishment. As a Club to pounce on a model they do not like in order to insure that their pockets are lined in perpetuity. Please think about your post and do some research, you will find that NO starving artist is benefiting from these actions. And that YOU have the most to lose in giving up your god given, natural right to share information. Life will be awfully expensive if you don't and you will still pass by starving artists on the streets while you scratch your head and ask.... "Where is my money going then ?" Please do research this.
lilbambiJun 15, 2008
They'll likely just drop the charges and offer the police station a complimentary license since they will be helping them in the future, maybe?*sigh*
eleeteJun 15, 2008
ahhhh, so for you copyright = welfare ? Well I'm a programmer and a photographer. I release both bodies of work to the public domain, as that is my choice, you know how I earn money ? Projects, I do work, I get paid, it's over. So enjoy your 70 years of payments, I see no point to hand you a penny through your mafia style reinforcement of rights. We'll see who wins in the end. ; )
Closed AccountJun 15, 2008
There are just no words for how lame brained this concept is...A radio blaring,is, by no stretch of the imagination,a "public performance."A performance involves real people with real instruments preforming for the public...Not a mechanical device playing pre recorded music. So,if that's the case,why don't they shut off music in grocery stores,etc? This is way past absurd.I'm surprised the USA was not the first to do this considering the greedy music industry fat cats over here.
Closed AccountJun 15, 2008
They ruined it years ago.