There were a number of cases like this in Britain over the past few years.
In one a soup kitchen got levied fines because the cooks in the back had the music loud enough for people out front to hear. In order to pay the fine they held a Christmas concert - and they were dinged again for the rights to the music that was performed.
I have no problem with the idea that people should receive benefit for the music they write/perform, but those benefits should be reasonable and things like this just make me angry.
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