Ugh. I give up. This isn’t good for my stress. I can’t keep reading these articles. It’s too draining. I feel like Lewis Black back when he was still relevant.
Anyway, the Performing Rights Society has brought a suit against Scotland’s "Kwik-Fit" chain of car repair shops because "Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers."
Come on, man. I can understand a lawsuit if you were to walk into an Abercrombie and Fitch looking for some sweet carpenter jeans and O-Town’s latest hit was blaring over the in-store music system without being licensed first because very loud music is A&F’s hook, bro. But let car mechanics listen to some Styx without hassling them.
Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios [BBC News] Thanks, Liam.
This is staggering if it’s true. I wonder whether the BBC has got a bit mixed up. What does this mean? It’s OK for 100 people to listen to their own individual radios but not OK for them all to listen to one radio. Incredible.
Actually, the mechanics within an area conducting business with customers coming in / out just like any department store. So I do see the point in this, but does this mean they will start visiting all the warehouses, factories and other settings where “others” might be listening to the radio as well? What does this mean for internet radio streams played at parties etc? This is a slippery slope, hopefully this doesn’t become yet another area of future revenues for the likes of the music industry.
Jon