the news

[Posse]

Ive just been watching the news and some fella has got fined because he had a radio on in his workshop I only saw the last part of it what the fook is all that about? Some other way of getting money out of us?

[Burns]

it's about having a licence to play music to the public, it's daft

[Noodles]

Stupid, its cos other people can hear it, does that mean when i have the radio on in my car with teh window open and someone can hear it I could get fined

[MightySprocket]

basically saying he needs a public performance licence like pubs do to show sky and play music, fookin rediculous the artist has already been paid rights by the radio station and it is advertising their song, thats what radio stations do fookin facsists

[SmokeEm]

Ive just been watching the news and some fella has got fined because he had a radio on in his workshop I only saw the last part of it what the fook is all that about? Some other way of getting money out of us?

 

What are you doing watching the news at 1 when you should be grafting like the rest of us

 

ps - if you're bored you could contact your supplier for a super fat bastard jacket for me

 

Love ya boss

[Chelle]

He's poorly

[Mk2Jo]

It is true ... it cost us £482.31 per year to play the radio in the workshop and offices here (we have 50 employees over 5 premises). We tried to fight it but it is all legal and above board .... it is the Performing Rights Society Licence (this is just one of two licences you need to buy).

 

Apparently you need to pay to play the music to your employees as they work better with the music on therefore the business gains by having happy employees. The only way around it is to let each employee have earphones so that no-one who might be passing can hear it which is not practical for health and safety reasons here.

 

Even if the employee brings in a cd, if it is played out loud you must still pay. The only way around this is if the employee is playing music that is their own .. ie they are in a band and it is their own band playing on the cd.

 

We didn't know anything about it ... just got a call from the performing rights society people asking us to pay up if we play music out loud. There are different rates for different types of establishment and the size of the establishment and number of employees.

 

You can't listen to internet radio out loud either ..... makes me mad because the radio stations have already paid to hear the artists with the fees that they pay and now we are having to pay as well to listen to it

 

And ... no good saying "well I'm not paying it". They do take people to court over it. Although, if they had not contacted us, I would not have paid out for it. Dunno why they rang us but you never know if they are gonna turn up and check or not so not worth the fine

 

I should just add that my boss asked us all to contribute to a total of 50% of the cost and he put the other 50% to it ... it was that or no music at all and we did that for a couple of days while we sorted the licences out and it was far too quiet

 

http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx

[FredTransit]

Well sod that! It's just being greedy. What if we all stop listening? Maybe it's a good idea to tell commercial radio about this.....

[Mk2Jo]

Well sod that! It's just being greedy. What if we all stop listening? Maybe it's a good idea to tell commercial radio about this.....

 

Already e-mailed all the local stations but no-one bothered to reply so they obviously all know about it Nothing they can do .... it's a licence to listen to the music whereas the radio stations pay to play the music

[Mick The Mig]

My company has had three letters about this in the last 2 months plus a phone call from some twat trying to catch us out by asking what stations we listened to. I said we don't have time to listen to the radio and make do with sounds from the guy who lives in the flat up-stairs. He sings and whistles a bit, mostly out of tune, we give him large amounts of stick when we see him. Perhaps we should pay him?

[Anglia68]

Our industrial estate were done last week.The guy next door was working on his own with his radio on and with the doors open and was told to pay up or go to court,he told them to f*ck off.He was told that he would have to pay and it would be backdated 10 years.WTF?

 

This week there has been no music played by anybody,it's so quiet it's creepy but we're only small companies and can't afford to spend hundreds of pounds on this new music tax..

 

I only used to listen to music at work so from now on I'll not be able to hear new artists or new tracks by anybody so won't be buying any CDs anymore,I hope they're proud of themselves.T*ssers.

[Boreham]

 

to some cutting out the rusty metal in a project is music ..to the ears....

that all you'll hear in my garage..... one it's built..

 

how long is it before the word gets out ......

 

and ye need a licence for that..

[FredTransit]

Sounds like they are shooting themselves in the foot about this. If they insist on pursuing it, nobody will listen to the radio at work, and that's why commercial radio stations have advertisers. Who listens to their radio at home? I mean in the living room like they used to do in the 40s.

[Toby]

Why the big purge at the moment? It must be a scam or a revenue thing.

 

In the last month I have had 2 letters and a phone call today.

 

Hello it's blar blar from the performing rights

 

Yeah

 

Do you play music there

 

No

 

Do you plan to

 

No

 

Do you know you need a licence to....?

 

Yeah you've written to me twice

 

Ok then we'll drop you a line to say you're aware.

 

Don't bother 2 letters are enough!!

 

We'll just quickly confirm it in writting......

 

BYE!!

[Mk2Jo]

We paid up because I was concerned that someone had either a) reported us for playing music on the premises or someone from the PRS had been wandering around the trading estate and thereby had proof that we did play music

[Toby]

Possibly fair enough if you're charging people for entry and making money out of them BECAUSE the music caused them to come, but not if they would be there anyway......

 

So Jo a walkman (how old am I??) would be ok?

[over_head_cam]

Apparently (a mate who knows stuff told me) Playing a tune out in public is technically breadcasting, for which you need a lisence. Bit mad if you ask me.

 

The same goes for if you play it in your car too and people can hear it outside! Unless you own the rights to the music, or have bought the right to broadcast the recordings (like muzak etc) then you can be done.

 

Seems a bit poinless to me though (although it would quieten down the local chavs if they had to pay to rattle my letterbox