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Just looking for information--If I have breakfast at a resturant and they have the daily newspaper available for the customers to take and read, is the resturant in violation of the newspaper's copyright? I'm not sure if you have been to McDonalds or Taco Bell lately but they each have special racks within the resturant which hold a copy of the daily paper for anyone to peruse, with out purchasing the paper. Those who do read the paper usually put it back in the special rack for some other customer to read (for free).

Shhhhhh! Stop asking such embarrassing questions. People might realize they have a commonsense right to use recordings in sensible ways.

Don't you realize that logic and common sense are trumped by laws, no matter how corrupted their origin and how twisted their implementation?

Go do something harmless. The fine people at ASCAP want to be left alone. And NEVER EVER publicise any local freeelancer for ASCAP. Some people might get the impression they are some kind of stool pidgeon and not take music lessons from them any more, or in other ways do economic harm to them.