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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
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.
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All the examples you mentioned are part of a for-profit company:
A lot of prisons in the states are for profit.
Retirement homes make a profit.
That elevator's part of a building that makes its building owner some profit.
Telephone on-hold music is probably for a line that's owned by a for-profit business.
Sure, they may not be directly be making money from the music but its being provided as (a probably small) part of their services for which they take a profit.
I'm not disagreeing with the point that not for profit public broadcasting of music still needs a license but the examples you mentioned there don't fit that description.