I think in discussing these issues it's very important to remember that the RIAA, or ASCAP, do NOT make the law (thankfully!), and that they have a very clear motive to distort it. Until a court decides that something is against the law, or until a law is passed that specifically prohibits some behavior, it is simply unclear what the legality is. In this case I suspect neither of the above has happened, since this sort of thing is pretty new.
While IANAL, I'm pretty sure you could successfully defend yourself from a charge of copyright violation in this case, which is in no real sense different from loaning your colleagues some CD's for a few hours, and/or playing your own music where a few others can hear it. JJZolx Wrote: > > I was mistaken about there being any chance that piping a single stream > of music throughout the office would be permitted without a license. > Actually I think you're wrong - even accepting ASCAP's rules (which there is absolutely no reason to do), they are pretty clearly talking about playing music in a restaurant or other public place, not in an office. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24891 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
