Music biz drills into dentists for royalties

CTV ^ | Updated Tue. Sep. 23 2003 8:16 AM ET | CTV.ca News Staff

[.cnI redruM]

I don't think I'd own up to having penned such elevator music classics as "The Root Canal Suite."

[Ronin]

This is getting ridiculous. How long before they try to outlaw stereo speakers and demand that royalties be paid each time you play a CD at home with your friends?

Someone needs to tell these people to get a clue. All they are doing is building up a huge well of anger for themselves.

[finnman69]

Why stop at dentists. Will they sue bars who play music next?

[weegee]

In America, they've already done the shakedown on bars that have a tv on because "there might be a tv ad for Burger King that uses a member's song". It's a shakedown racket. The mob was in the music business at least up into the 1980s. Rap labels still have gangster ties. Wouldn't surprise me that ASCAP, RIAA, and the major labels still employ crooks.

[eno_]

Ho ho! You are unaware then of the mob-like tactics of the music licensors.

Once they TRY to snag you, they want their hooks in you for life. If you try to avoid music represented by the major licensing bodies, they will sue you if you slip up just once.

If one of them showed up on my door, I'd not hesitate to sic a thug on them - they are no better.

[weegee]

They already get bars. Look near the door or jukebox and you may find their BMI and ASCAP certificates.

[Ben Ficklin]

Dance Teachers also have to pay.

[freekitty]

Revenues must be down.

[staytrue]

Dance teachers will not pay, they will be granted "courtesy rights" because they are artists. However, if you play a CD for your car pool friends, you may be toast.

[george wythe]

It says that every time a dentist or other health care practitioner plays music for its patients, he's stealing.

The music industry is becoming more of Mafia-like enterprise.

If I bring my own CD to the dentist's office, will it be stealing if I listen to it while getting my teeth cleaned?

Why do I have to bring my own CD to the dentist's office if my dentist already has the same CD there?

[onedoug]

Anti-dentite bastards!

[Ronin]

I don't know if it is the crooks so much as it is the lawyers. Of course, all lawyers are crooks these days, so that may not be much of a difference.

Lawyers need lawsuits to make money. That's the name of that game. No lawsuits, no fees, no fancy cars or Brooks Bros. suits.

The thing is, there are so many of them now that they are frantically searching for anyone who can be sued for anything to justify their existence. The system is totally out of control and totally out of whack.

The Bard had the right idea.

[ShadowDancer]

If the denist paid for the CD, he can play it in his office or home if he wants to. He isn't reproducing. This is just plain stupidity.

[LibKill]

When I go to the dentist the only sounds I hear are the drill.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd like to see them collect royalties on that!

[wiseone]

my surgery staff had a CD playing classical music in the OR!!

[Tench_Coxe]

"If the denist paid for the CD, he can play it in his office or home if he wants to. He isn't reproducing. This is just plain stupidity."

According to some of the RIAA shills on this site, playing the CD in his office where others might 'hear' it is stealing.

[gitmo]

[Publius6961]

Wait.
if I have a gettogether and I play music for 20 people, I am also violating copyright laws?
How is that different from allowing 20 patients to hear the same thing?

[Publius6961]

Will they sue bars who play music next?

Of course!
Jukeboxes with earphones.