Copyright Group Apologizes to “Unlicensed” Grocery Clerk Singer
Had warned she could be fined for singing aloud in a public place without a public performance license. It’s no secret that royalty collecting groups have been doing all they can to drum up business by hounding restaurants, cafes, gyms, waiting areas, business offices, and just any place they can think of where music would be “performed” publicly for others to hear. PRS for Music, a UK-based royalty collecting group for music writers, composers, and publishers, is just such a group and managed to go overboard in threatening 56yo Sandra Burt, a supermarket grocery clerk.
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Copyright Group Apologizes to “Unlicensed” Grocery Clerk Singer
