The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119672 Message #2605473
Posted By: s&r
06-Apr-09 - 04:19 AM
Thread Name: PRS v Google
Subject: RE: PRS v Google
It's very difficult to fight the PRS. They have huge income and employ lawyers who 'take no prisoners'. Small businesses, clubs, pubs,festivals etc. dare not challenge the interpretation of the law as seen by the PRS. Most pay up because they are realistically afraid to do otherwise.
There should be reward for intellectual enterprise, be it copyright patent rights or W.H.Y. The labourer is worthy of his hire, whatever his labours.
Obscene payments to some and peanuts to others is not equitable: double and triple billing is not fair; public performance is not accidentally overhearing; unregulated and uncontrolled bodies are not the best arbiters of these matters.
The PRS is a good and necessary concept gone dreadfully wrong.
Stu