Yet Another Music Copyright Lawsuit: Turn Off Those Staff Radios in the UK!
Kwik-Fit, a UK car repair company, has been sued by the Performing Rights Society over staff use of radios.
Here's an excerpt from "Kwik-Fit Sued over Staff Radios":
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.
Source: "Kwik-Fit Sued over Staff Radios." BBC News, 5 October 2007.
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