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In article , OG
scribeth thus

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , geoff
scribeth thus


Have any other businesses on here been bombarded over the past months
by
the PRS to get them to fork out for a licence ?



Yes they seem to be on a mission!..

We told 'em to sod off as we don't have the public in here anyway!..

'We' means that there's more than one of you, so you need a PRS licence.


We as in us me, I, myself, and I ..

Well if HM can use it so can I .. the missus sometimes has been known to
bring some tea in;!....
--
Tony Sayer


I mend hifi and such for a living, so have to play 'real' music as well as
test discs and signal generator outputs etc. Setting aside the fact that I
am a one man band, I wonder if that is theoretically covered by this PRS
stuff ?

Garages are required to have a licence if they listen to a customer's radio
to do any work on it for them, so almost certainly, yes.

What about in workshops that have many engineers working in them ?

The company would be required to declare how many engineers and for how
long, on average, they would be listening to the music each day. The
alternative, mentioned elsewhere, would be to buy royalty-free music for the
purpose.

Colin Bignell