Eh?

A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work.

The action against the Kwik-Fit Group has been brought by the Performing Rights Society which collects royalties for songwriters and performers.

(BBC)

Too loud. That's the complaint. Which might sound perfectly reasonable when you're stuck at a light behind a car that sounds like a battleship in heat. That's not the case here, though - the Performing Rights Society complains Kwik-Fit employees play their radios loud enough for customers waiting in an adjoining room to hear, thereby infringing on some kind of public performance rule.

Somehow it seems to me - OK, you can call me craZy here - those customers aren't hanging around the waiting room just so they can hear what Joe Greasemonkey likes to listen to on his radio. But getting hauled into court for letting somebody else hear what you're listening to on the radio sounds pretty munged to me.

If this Performing Rights Society really wants to make itself useful they can go after that Salvation Army guy with the trumpet who plays "Silent Night" off-key every winter - I'll be glad to let them know when he shows up again.