You owe the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) money

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Public must pay to play

If you play music outside of your home or car and there are other people around to hear it, technically you owe the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) money. And it doesn’t matter if the music is recorded or from the radio.

The same holds true if you run a business and want to have the radio on in your office or store. In fact, if you have a television in your company’s reception area where the public may hear music, you owe Samro a licensing fee, too.

Samro inland regional sales manager Alan Gustafson says the industry body is simply fulfilling its mandate of enforcing the Copyright Act of 1978.
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So if you are not the only person in your car, or leave the music playing a the traffic light in the hearing of a vendor, do you pay?

This kind of stupidity really endears the music industry to the public, doesn't it?
 
If you leave a radio playing in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
 
How does the revenue work for an artist? If a song is played on the wireless does the artist get paid for it?
 
Wasn't this monkey... Sorry, I mean guy, on John Robbie's show yesterday?

Defending a copyright act from 1972..? I suppose if I really think about it 'tho, the music industry probably still has it's head in '72. The world has changed boys, just saying... I'd suggest these dinosaurs move on but I know that's never going to happen. I just hope for their sake the trip to complete and utter irrelevance has nice views.
 
and they plan enforcing this how exactly?

wait, maybe they can join forces with scamral...
 
Does whistling count too? If not, then the solution is to play the track at x0.1 BPM and you're sorted. There cannot be a distinction...
 
What the hell - who really cares what he says or think. In the end this is unenforceable. These guys should really start to think in terms of what will really benefit the music industry most: sticking to copyright laws of the 70's, or getting with the times. It's quite ironic how they don't realize that they're digging a hole for themselves.
 
bekdik said:
Public must pay to play



So if you are not the only person in your car, or leave the music playing a the traffic light in the hearing of a vendor, do you pay?

This kind of stupidity really endears the music industry to the public, doesn't it?
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For a business I understand as we paid less than R100 a year for my wifes small business, but for private, that is where its really lame.
 
Companies have to pay to use a radio station or a copyrighted song as their on hold music on their telephone systems as well.
 
These fools again...

They're just jealous at the RIAA living it large by extorting money from people.
 
bekdik said:
Public must pay to play



So if you are not the only person in your car, or leave the music playing a the traffic light in the hearing of a vendor, do you pay?

This kind of stupidity really endears the music industry to the public, doesn't it?
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Important: ONLY Music their rights holders hold the copyright of. Thankfully I don't listen to any of that, so yes, I can play for the public and only the copyright holder can stop me - and they're not in SA.
 
bekdik said:
Public must pay to play



So if you are not the only person in your car, or leave the music playing a the traffic light in the hearing of a vendor, do you pay?

This kind of stupidity really endears the music industry to the public, doesn't it?
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The vendor should not be at the traffic light, so no, you don't pay. You won't have to pay if a burglar listens to it too before stealing your stuff.

Remember, as I've said, it's only music their members have South African distribution rights for. They are not allowed under penalty of criminal law to demand payment for music they don't have rights to. That would be criminal piracy: profiting from music you don't own copyright to. I would hope they try this (in error) and get charged with felony copyright infringement.
 
grim said:
Companies have to pay to use a radio station or a copyrighted song as their on hold music on their telephone systems as well.
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So you loyalty free music. There is tons of free loyalty free music. Or use non-SA licensed music.
 
kripstoe said:
Depends. Is the cat in the sealed box in that wood dead or alive?
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It depends whether you're a realist or a nominalist. A nominalist will deny that there is sound, a realist will say there is. I'm in the second camp.
 
Another failed PR stunt that raises nothing but ire.
 
If this puts a stop to the idiots twenty cars away who think my insides should feel what my ears are involuntarily hearing, I'm all for supporting it.
 
Merlin said:
If this puts a stop to the idiots twenty cars away who think my insides should feel what my ears are involuntarily hearing, I'm all for supporting it.
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:D

Have the same problem at our house. You can hear the doef-doef a long way off, and when he travels past our house, the whole house goes doef-doef.

Pointless, really.
 
OMG the cANCer must owe a fortune due to their conferences, functions and entertainment. I wonder if they pay - oops sorry silly question of course they don't.
 
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