EXCESS COPYRIGHT: Is Torture by Music a "Performance in Public"?

EXCESS COPYRIGHT: Is Torture by Music a "Performance in Public"?

12 July 2008

Is Torture by Music a "Performance in Public"?
Certain collectives are quick to collect money from those in nursing homes, hospitals, prisons etc. on the basis that these are "public" places. Never mind that the audience is captive and it's their home, like it or not. Well, it turns out that music is used at Guantanamo for torture purposes, according to the BBC. ... Leaving aside the legal niceties about whose law if any applies in that dreadful place, one can only wonder if ASCAP might not want a piece of the action.
awesome. via boingboing http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-torture-by-music-performance-in.html

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