Restaurant Sued For Playing Copyrighted Music

A restaurant is being sued in federal court by a group representing songwriters for playing tunes written by Van Morrison, Dwight Yoakam and others without a license. B-M-I says damages could reach 750 dollars per song.

I understand that this is currently the law, but it is complete crap. If a restaraunt is just playing music for background noise and not directly making a profit from it, they shouldn’t have to pay royalties. They don’t pay royalties to manufacturer of the paintings in their restaraunt, just because it happens to be in a restauraunt.

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