If the BBC can record a performance and broadcast it without a license, one wonders if the famous "7-second delay" used for making sure everything's "politically correct" would qualify as a "recording."

If an audience outside a "practice area" or "recording session" overhears (accidentally) the music, would a license be required?

The performers would be playing for the purpose of creating a recording, and the audience would be listening to the recording?

Then if the delay could be edged back to, say 7 microseconds, ...

(Just trying to get in the spirit of the ridiculous, and offering my sympathy and condolences from across the way.)

John