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Thread #120541 Message #2625154
Posted By: maple_leaf_boy
05-May-09 - 11:36 PM
Thread Name: PRL- Whats this about
Subject: RE: PRL- Whats this about
These laws are put into action, because the music you're playing might
influence your business. It creates an atmosphere that customers like,
and makes them more likely to spend more on you, and sometimes return
to buy from you. Therefore, the artists' music would have contributed to your business.
This is similar to independent television programs which blur out brand name logos if they don't have an advertising deal with those companies. "The Trailer Park Boys" (a Canadian show)
for example, have blurred out many logos in their series, such as the Lay's potato chips logo when one of the characters was eating them in one scene, and blurring out the signs on certain chain-stores. Fans who saw it on the show might be influenced to purchase those brand names, or shop at those stores. If they don't have an advertising deal with those companies, and they don't blur out those logos, the t.v. show can ask those companies for a cut in their profits, if sales go out. If the logos are blurred out, they can't go after those companies for money unless they have a deal with them.