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Originally Posted by Slava
I read a lot of this thread and I see the difference between a commercial use personal use. But this is a completely different situation as its not being used for profit, which is really where that distinction lies.
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You can't broadcast music to an audience outside of worship or a small social gathering without licensing, its pretty cut and dried. Profit has nothing to do with it. Prisons, retirement homes, elevators, telephone on-hold music, all of these have been required in the past to pay royalties for music made audible, even if it doesn't target a particular audience for profit motives.
Even public spaces, say Olympic Plaza and its skating rink, would need a license to use any music they played over a PA, and that's just music floating around in open space in a public area. You can't just set up PA speakers in a random spot and start playing music, as odd as that sounds.