UK Court Shoots Down Fee Hike For Pubs, Restaurants & Hotels
from the give-the-money-back dept
Over the last few years, we've seen collections societies around the world do whatever possible to bring in more money -- most often by either trying to hike up their fees and by trying to collect from more places/venues -- even when those claims are often quite a stretch. Luis Esteves alerts us to the news that, over in the UK, one of the local collections societies, PPL, has lost a lawsuit concerning its fee hike back in 2005 -- meaning that pubs, restaurants and hotels that play music in the UK may be getting somewhere around £20m in revenue back from PPL. While this is one small victory against the rapid expansion of these groups, it's still worth noting that these groups, often with the backing of the government, are almost always rent seeking -- looking for more ways to get money out of organizations and individuals.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: collection society, copyright, hotsl, pubs, restaurants, uk
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how will PPL pay?
Right?
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Chances are they can pay it out of the small change they find lying around their offices... that being the money for the non-major artists that they are waiting to distribute to the artists.
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When you seek payment via force and coercion the technical term is extortion.
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Crazy IDea...
If the don't want to play ball, there are other local bands that will.
Heck, I'll even offer to sell their CDs too.
Free advertising for them, free music for me.
Screw RIAA and it's illegitimate spawn!
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they're lazy failures that go around extorting hard workers for no good reason and the government backs them only because they're also lazy failures and get paid campaign contributions by extortionist lazy failures.
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