On 06/07/2010 11:11, Lucky13 wrote:
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/hairdresse..._bill_1_806721


It looks as though the PPL had quite a productive day in Preston -

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/second_sal...radio_1_839602

I imagine it's quite a nice job to be sent to towns/cities/villages
around the UK with a budget for lunch and travel and to wander in and
out of shops jotting down who was playing music!

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:58:34 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Peter Duncanson wrote:

I cannot comprehend how these laws came into existence unless there was
some serious lobbying and maybe a few incentives to the lawmakers of the
times? How many times can you charge for the same good/service?

There are NOT charging more than once for the same good/service.

In the case of a radio playing to a 'public' audience, they are. The
radio station has already paid them the same fees, based upon that
station's audience size. In the case of a BBC radio station, they've
been paid with *our* money.

Sorry, but the PRS/PPL are just a bunch of 'jobsworth fleece yer money
agents'. Come the revolution they'll be second up against the wall
(first will be Ofcom of course).

They hit on our local off licence and told the owner he could listen
to his own radio in his own shop but had to turn it off when a
customer came in.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Mark Carver
saying something like:

In any case, how do you prove one way or another that those being
'performed to' in a work place or shop are not listeners to the same
radio station anyway ?

More to the point - on many occasions when a radio was on in a workshop
/shop /office, I wished fervently for it to be off, instead of bugging
me with its inane nonsense.
Now - deduct me and thousands of others like me from the 'audience'
figures and see where that leaves the leeches of the PRS, etc.

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:06:27 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Mark Carver
saying something like:

In any case, how do you prove one way or another that those being
'performed to' in a work place or shop are not listeners to the same
radio station anyway ?

More to the point - on many occasions when a radio was on in a workshop
/shop /office, I wished fervently for it to be off, instead of bugging
me with its inane nonsense.

It's not just me then?

This reminds me when I was the only customer in a restaurant where
they were playing loud and awful music. I asked the manager to switch
it off, turn it down or change the record but he refused, saying that
head office dictates this and they are not allowed to. Needless to
say I've never been back there. I should have written to the company
but I can't be bothered.
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