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Old July 7th 10, 01:12 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Mark[_7_]
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Default Hit with a £1,500 bill for having a radio on while giving customers a trim.

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:06:52 +0100, Lucky13
wrote:

On 07/07/2010 12:42, tim.... wrote:
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On 07/07/2010 06:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
So what about all those music quizzes and sing along in day centres,
blind
clubs etc all over the country. is there a roving team of undercover folk
employed by these organisations looking for victims, erm people doing
this
illegally?

Brian


Would they be protected under fair usage?


Even if you would, playing a radio in a shop and broadcasting to a couple of
hundred people who walk though is not by any stretch of the imagination,
"fair usage".


Sorry I was applying fair usage primarily to music quizzes in pubs.


This would not be counted as "fair use".
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