UK’s Performing Rights Society Sues Kwik-Fit

noah | October 9, 2007 9:17 am

In a move similar to ASCAP’s crusades against bars who haven’t paid a license to play music, the UK’s Performing Rights Society has sued the car repair chain Kwik-Fit for £200,000 because “mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers.” “Colleagues,” hm? The countdown to the first complaint from a person who’s claiming copyright infringement by her super-annoying coworkers who can’t stop blaring–and singing along with–Lite-FM starts now. [BBC]