Legal rights to listening to a radio at work?
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My boss got a phone call from a company called the Performing arts, They said that if we wanted to listen to the radio at work we need to pay them for the liberty.
Something to do with broadcasting to the public?
Has anyone else had to pay this?
We only have 7 people working at are place and they want something like £200 a year so we can listen to the radio?
Is there a legal loop hole around this?
Something to do with broadcasting to the public?
Has anyone else had to pay this?
We only have 7 people working at are place and they want something like £200 a year so we can listen to the radio?
Is there a legal loop hole around this?
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Its just driving use all mad at work now as listening to the radio just passes time.
Your not even aloud to listen to CD's on the Hi-Fi
Your not even aloud to listen to CD's on the Hi-Fi
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yep its right!! they have just done the same in our place £100 a year!
you have too have one if there are more than 3 or more people working in one place,
i think anyway!
you have too have one if there are more than 3 or more people working in one place,
i think anyway!
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They said if we don't pay they will send a inspector round uninvited to see if we are listening to the radio?
What fooking next paying for the air we breathe.
What fooking next paying for the air we breathe.
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Performing arts? Are you sure it wasn't the Performing Rights Society (i.e. the company that sort out the royalties etc. for artists) PRS WILL sue, and win.
EDIT to add: if listening to personal radios that can't be overheard, you should be fine (but that'd mean headphones etc.)
EDIT to add: if listening to personal radios that can't be overheard, you should be fine (but that'd mean headphones etc.)
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Dan, you say that but they are there to protect the artist...
More info here JohnnyK: http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...s/default.aspx
More info here JohnnyK: http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...s/default.aspx
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Dan, you say that but they are there to protect the artist...
More info here JohnnyK: http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...s/default.aspx
More info here JohnnyK: http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...s/default.aspx
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Sorry, when i said artist, I don't mean the performer but the writers and composers (the copyright holders).
Fuzzy, I don't make the rules and don't work for the PRS. If you wrote a highly successful song, wouldn't you feel cheated if you made nothing from it due to the amount of piracy etc?
Radio/TV stations also have to pay to play the music.
Fuzzy, I don't make the rules and don't work for the PRS. If you wrote a highly successful song, wouldn't you feel cheated if you made nothing from it due to the amount of piracy etc?
Radio/TV stations also have to pay to play the music.
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Sorry, when i said artist, I don't mean the performer but the writers and composers (the copyright holders).
Fuzzy, I don't make the rules and don't work for the PRS. If you wrote a highly successful song, wouldn't you feel cheated if you made nothing from it due to the amount of piracy etc?
Radio/TV stations also have to pay to play the music.
Fuzzy, I don't make the rules and don't work for the PRS. If you wrote a highly successful song, wouldn't you feel cheated if you made nothing from it due to the amount of piracy etc?
Radio/TV stations also have to pay to play the music.
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Quite sure - pretty much any public performance means the 'broadcaster' has to pay, one way or another.
The system has been around for MANY years, it would seem however not everyone is aware of it.
The system has been around for MANY years, it would seem however not everyone is aware of it.
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lets see, singing about guns and drugs and b*tch`s murder rape, is ok !!!!?
but they moan to the police when they get scamed really i thought they might at least threaten to come round and beat us up
but they moan to the police when they get scamed really i thought they might at least threaten to come round and beat us up
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this country just gets worse buy the day, what a load a
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im waiting for when they start pavement tax, the fatter you are the more emmisions you produce and more wear to the pavement, so they'll tax you more.
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im waiting for when they start pavement tax, the fatter you are the more emmisions you produce and more wear to the pavement, so they'll tax you more.
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WTF!!! im sure EVERY person that works in that place pays the fookin BBC licence anyway!!!!!!
thats like saying. you can pay for it,, oh then you can pay for it again cos you are using it somewhere else!!
thats like saying. you can pay for it,, oh then you can pay for it again cos you are using it somewhere else!!
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bring your radio from your house and argue that you already have a licence for it?
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Right
This is ages old.. goes back to when I first worked in a shop in 1996 they'd ring up and get some money off you...
Ignore em, tell em you dont listen to the radio and fuck off...
I'm not 100% sure whether it's a scam or not but its a load of toss and nother ever came of it.
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This is ages old.. goes back to when I first worked in a shop in 1996 they'd ring up and get some money off you...
Ignore em, tell em you dont listen to the radio and fuck off...
I'm not 100% sure whether it's a scam or not but its a load of toss and nother ever came of it.
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you do need a permit to listen to it, right or wrong you still need it.
If you dont have one you will get royaly fucked up the arse.
Used to maybe even still is a class 1 entertainment's licence.
If you dont have one you will get royaly fucked up the arse.
Used to maybe even still is a class 1 entertainment's licence.
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What if all the worker set up a Itunes account and everyone chips in to buy a album/albums and the plays them at work?
There still paying to listen to the artist?
There still paying to listen to the artist?
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and private work places are classed as public broadcasting? so technically we shouldnt be allowed to play the radio on our building site? but then again its not us thats broadcasting it , thats the radio stations job , all were doing is tuning in and listening?
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Broadcast, public performance, public playing - split hairs all you like, it makes no difference whatsoever to me
. I replied originally to help JohnnyK out with the relevant info. Whether you like it or not, as said by someone above that's the way it is.
Plenty of information regarding what is and isn't required/covered on the PRS link.
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Plenty of information regarding what is and isn't required/covered on the PRS link.