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Settleddown

Settleddown

Settleddown

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Today we had some people from the health and safety and another strange old codgers club join us in the office :rolleyes:

On walking round nodding there heads we cant no longer have a radio playing, and have to take down our woman’s calendar that shows women in lingerie none nude.

I mean for crying out loud I really don’t get it!

Anybody else had work bans following these idiots walking round deciding what’s what?
 
Let the muppets in let them see/do what they want ... after they have gone

radio back on and sexy women back on the wall till another time :D managment routine every time at work
 
I really cannot see what harm a radio and a woman’s calendar is? :( Now have to put up with the noise of the keyboard finger bashers and hum of the computers haha!!!
 
You’re not paid to listen to the radio, lingerie calendars are offensive and demeaning. Now get back to work. :p:D
 
Settleddown said:
I really cannot see what harm a radio and a woman’s calendar is? :( Now have to put up with the noise of the keyboard finger bashers and hum of the computers haha!!!
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The radio thing is probably about a licence that is needed to broadcast in a workplace. The calender? Probably just being PC, no law against it.
 
Settleddown said:
Why would you need a license to broadcast in a workplace? Isn’t radio a free medium?
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Sounds like PRS stuff.

Basically it costs about £50 a year or something to play the radio to over ten employees [can't remember the exact amount but it's something like ten]. If your company wants to pay up, go for it.

But why pay £50 a year at all? Well, here is the answer. It's all to do with the artists getting royalties from the music played. You have to pay if the radio is 'broadcast' to something like 10+ people in your work. Why? Well, look at it this way - you are playing the radio to over ten people but the station you are channeling only "sees" one listener - so the artists are only being paid for one, when in reality it's far more people listening. Get it? So the PRS fee is to compensate the artists for those 'extra' people.
 
Just put up a "swimwear" calender, perfectly acceptable clothing to wear in public so no issue.

We had some guy in our office complain we had a "rocket" (toy foam rocket used to shoot other teams) that was too phallic looking. lol.

It is still there.
 
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starfighter said:
What if don't play chart music and all your music is by artists that aren't signed or obscure artists, it isn't like the PRS will pay them.
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Unsigned artists and artists on obscure labels still have to copyright their music, and they still get paid by PRS, generally.

It's really the artist's responsibility to copyright their own music. PRS can't go round searching for every unsigned artist. If the artists haven't copyrighted their own stuff, well, tough.

EDIT - your previous question was perfectly valid!
 
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Lysander said:
Unsigned artists and artists on obscure labels still have to copyright their music, and they still get paid by PRS, generally.

It's really the artist's responsibility to copyright their own music. PRS can't go round searching for every unsigned artist. If the artists haven't copyrighted their own stuff, well, tough.

EDIT - your previous question was perfectly valid!
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LOL I got rid of it because I wasn't sure but ty.
 
Lysander said:
You have to pay if the radio is 'broadcast' to something like 10+ people in your work. Why? Well, look at it this way - you are playing the radio to over ten people but the station you are channeling only "sees" one listener - so the artists are only being paid for one, when in reality it's far more people listening.
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Surely they only "see" one radio. Radios have a long track record of chucking energy in the ears of multiple people simultaneously :D
 
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