Re: [Harp-L] Elderly harmonica player arrested for performingcopyrighted songs at bar

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Planet Harmonica wrote:
> If more proof was needed that existing copyright laws are 
> outdated, absurd and only serve to feed the rich, this is it...

Not to mention some uniformity.  This certainly wouldn't have been 
prosecuted in the US, unless he was recording the gigs and selling the 
recordings.  Even then, it's hard to say whether anyone would pursue 
it if it was small enough.  

-tim