Anyone listen to music in the workplace?

[sibeer]

We did until yesterday when the friendly chaps at PRS gave us a call and told us that for us to use music they wanted about £400. We have 5 members of staff here FFS.

Why is the workplace any different to private residence? We have no members of the public and generally play comercial radio, who already pay for a license to broadcast the music. All of us are legally allowed to listen to our music through personal stereos, but if we play it on a set of speakers we are breaking the law.

What a load of ***.

[coiler]

How did they find out you were playing music?

[tystar]

Someone must have grassed you up :cop:

Either that or someone from PRS called round and heard the music??

[coiler]

does this fee apply to radio or just cds etc?

[tystar]

All Music if i remember correctly, CD's Mp3's & Radio

[scottmac]

You should've replied

" We're pleased you have made it known to us which entity to invoice for advertising their products. Our price is £800 plus administration costs".

Well... They can't expect to get advertising for free now can they ?

I'd go with this, great idea

[coiler]

I'd go with this, great idea

reminds me of the guy in London who invoiced Pret et Manger, Starbucks etc for the time he'd spent waiting in their queues. He charged them his hourly rate and they paid up too :surprised:

[tystar]

reminds me of the guy in London who invoiced Pret et Manger, Starbucks etc for the time he'd spent waiting in their queues. He charged them his hourly rate and they paid up too :surprised:

Link or it didnt happen

[scottmac]

Link or it didnt happen

If this turns out to be true I'm gonna spend the afternoon writing invoices

[tystar]

I think we all will :D

[coiler]

LINK! took me a bit of googling to track it down


"
Paul McCrudden, a digital strategist, recorded all the time he spent as a consumer during the six weeks from the middle of June to the end of July. He sent invoices to 50 companies that he used.
He charged them £25.50 an hour – which is 25 per cent of his usual hourly rate at work – "to reflect the fact that time spent with them is not as 'productive' as it is with my employer"."





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6097846/Man-invoices-Pret-A-Manger-and-EAT-for-time-spent-waiting-in-shops.html

[radial]

The PRS wanted to fine a shop worker last year for singing in the shop without a license!! They backed down though when they started getting bad press: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm

Tossers!

[coiler]

BUT one of the companys he tried to bill for standing in their queue sent this back to him!



http://www.paulmccrudden.com/images/sixweeks/cranberryInvoice.png

[scottmac]

BUT one of the companys he tried to bill for standing in their queue sent this back to him!



http://www.paulmccrudden.com/images/sixweeks/cranberryInvoice.png

excellent response

[Hydey]

We listen to Radio 1/You Tube/Myspace or own songs on our work PC. They've sent letters to us about it, but we'd know that they'd be coming up to the department a good 5 minutes (or whenever we sent someone to escort them up) if an investigator did come.

It's just a con, anyway.

[M4T VW]

£400!?

I get letters from the PRS every month wanting to pay about £25...
Only 4 staff, (2 of us are directors so only counts as 2)

Way i see it we only listen to the BBC and we all pay our licence fee. Already paid for it!

[mac124]

Several radio stations to choose from here, have 4 dab tuners in a rack ;), or umpteen gb of mp3's, though they have to be stored on a personal hdd.

But then i do work for a company that makes equipment for broadcast studios so we need to test it some how, and yes we had to pay to be able to listen to the radio in work.