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Originally Posted by lumpynose
The copyright laws, or whatever laws they are, can sometimes be surprising. Another example from the early mp3 days was an article I heard on the radio. From what I understood them saying, you can't buy a CD, for example, and play it in your restaurant as background music for the customers. Unless you arrange to pay royalties to the people who manage them (BMI, RIAA, I think).
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It's certainly true in Britain that you have to buy a licence if you operate a commercial business which plays copyrighted music - eg as background music. The money from the licence is distributed to record companies and artists. See:
https://pplprs.co.uk/themusiclicence/