I wrote an article back in December about intellectual property becoming one of the big ideological political footballs in ther 21st century and it got a good reception. Time for an update of some recent trends methinks. First of all, numerous posters have recently gone up around Islington claiming that, as you can read in… Continue reading More from the IP Wars front line
Tag: performing-rights-society
More PRS balls
As a follow up to my blog post a couple of weeks ago, ‘Ron‘ from Linksway Hotel has written the following: I have just been contacted by this society and been advised that I need to pay some £1800 per annum for hotel guests to view and listen to music in their rooms. We pay… Continue reading More PRS balls
Performing Rights – should everyone be sued?
My office has just had a phone call from the Performing Rights Society (asking for a company that ceased to exist 10 years ago, natch) demanding that we take our a PRS license on the basis that some people in the office listen to personal MP3 players. Sounds like crap to me, but their leaflet… Continue reading Performing Rights – should everyone be sued?