What if it’s just the mechanics in the workshop or whatever listening to the radio? It’s of no financial benefit to the business, it doesn’t increase profits, it’s just something for the staff to listen to.

Presumably the mechanics in the workshop reckon they’ll work better with the radio on. Better workshop output = financial gain to the business.

But if we’re going down that route, then listening to the radio maybe makes long-distance truck drivers work better too. Should they pay a license to listen in their cabs?

Musicians are never happy – bunch of lazy layabouts expecting to be paid over and over and over again for a piece of work they did 2 decades ago! 😉

Presumably the mechanics in the workshop reckon they’ll work better with the radio on. Better workshop output = financial gain to the business.

Or perhaps the opposite if they get distracted, so can the business owner claim compensation? 😉

I didn’t realise that a licence was required in a workplace that isn’t public. Surely by buying the CD in the first place I’m supporting the artist? Why should you continue to have to pay on this basis?

But if we’re going down that route, then listening to the radio maybe makes long-distance truck drivers work better too. Should they pay a license to listen in their cabs?

Window down at the traffic lights whilst eyeing up hammers in the hardware shop, giving the public a blast of Steve Earle.

But if we’re going down that route, then listening to the radio maybe makes long-distance truck drivers work better too. Should they pay a license to listen in their cabs?

its not about productivity, it’s about a performance being broadcast to the public while you offer them a service (shop/pub etc) or a workforce.

Musicians are never happy – bunch of lazy layabouts expecting to be paid over and over and over again for a piece of work they did 2 decades ago!

I think Cliff is unhappy at getting paid for the same job for 5 decades and thinks it should be 7