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The owner refused, replaced the radio with a cassette machine and started only playing classical music and Italian folk songs that were in the public domain.



Which would still leave the owner open to the same sort of legal action, unless the performance was also in the public domain. See this link for details.

However, a sufficiently small business can play music on the radio without paying licensing fees.

I wonder if/how my local record store is licensed. Since they play fairly eclectic stuff, I can guarantee the fees collected aren't going to the artists who's music is being played. Same for the book store around the corner that has a large collection of LPs they play from.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?