[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

I believe royalties are required in both of those cases.

I'm sure there are services that exist (probably from the regular providers) that allow companies to show TV, and play music channels (with the royalties taken care of).

I know for a fact that companies that play music while people are on hold do have to pay royalties for it. My brother in law worked for a company for a while where part of his job was making sure that got taken care of.

As for the tv. I'm fairly certain that for say a bar to play tv they just pay higher cable/sattelite fees to Shaw, or whoever to cover that part of it.