ERICSAGOD
Grumpy Old Git
PRS attempts to sue Kiwk-Fit for £200,000 of damages for copyright infringement via employees’ radios
Is there anything you can do with music that doesn’t make you a thieving, blood-thirsty pirate in the eyes of the music industry? If you were going to be a truly law-abiding citizen then you wouldn’t copy any of your music to use for your car or MP3 player and, apparently, you wouldn’t listen to a radio at work either.
It’s all about copyright infringement, which is something that the Performing Rights Society (PRS) takes very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it’s currently suing Kwik-Fit because its employees’ radios could be heard by customers and work colleagues and thus infringes copyright.
Had a memo at work telling us that the company will not be buying the licence required, so we are not allowed to play radios at work - bollocks.