{"id":1548,"date":"2009-10-22T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T11:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2009-10-22T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T11:44:29","slug":"soon-theyll-demand-a-fee-for-thinking-about-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/soon-theyll-demand-a-fee-for-thinking-about-the-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon, they&#8217;ll demand a fee for <em>thinking<\/em> about the songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although this particular case appears to have ended correctly &mdash; with an apology from the heavy-handed enforcer &mdash; it does still illustrate just how far the copyright police are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/tayside_and_central\/8317952.stm\" target=\"_blank\">willing to go<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A shop assistant who was told she could not sing while she stacked shelves without a performance licence has been given an apology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&#038;T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS).<\/p>\n<p>However the organisation that collects royalties on behalf of the music industry has now reversed its stance.<\/p>\n<p>They have sent Mrs Burt a bouquet of flowers and letter of apology.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Burt, who describes herself as a Rolling Stones fan, said that despite the initial warning from the PRS, she had been unable to stop herself singing at work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this particular case appears to have ended correctly &mdash; with an apology from the heavy-handed enforcer &mdash; it does still illustrate just how far the copyright police are willing to go: A shop assistant who was told she could not sing while she stacked shelves without a performance licence has been given an apology. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[135,186,200,217],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","tag-copyright","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-music","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}