borisloosebrain

LOL. I guess crime does pay after all.

Perhaps the police could turn their attention to the many thai soap stars attempting to impersonate singers...surely an amendment to the noise pollution act could be madeto cover their crimes against music.

In every installation I recommended that the purchaser paid a fee for a Performing Rights Society licence. They (allegedly) pay money to songwriters and copyright holders. Yeah! Right!

http://www.prsformus...es/default.aspx

Actually I know someone who wrote the words and music to a popular song several decades ago. He never performed it himself and he never wrote anything else that was anywhere near as popular, but that one song was recorded and sung by several fairly big stars in several different languages and countries.

He has lived very nicely off the PRS cheques for that one song ever since and looks set to continue doing so.

They certainly keep paying in Australia.

Certifiably NUTS! Of course, in the USA famous artists sing the songs of others all of the time (form of admiration). Dylan does it, Clapton does it, Mayer does it.....on and on. Copyright laws only enter into the equation w/ regard to recordings (as far as I know).

Not at all. If you perform a song or music or piece of theatre or any other copyrighted creation in public whether for reward or not you still have to have the permission of the copyright owner, and there may be a fee payable depending on the owner. And you also have to have similar permission to record the creation, which again may be subject to payment depending on the owner.

If Dylan or anyone else sings someone else's songs in public, or records them, then he has to have permission for each occurrence and may have to pay.

Not so in Australia - you can perform live any song that is in the public domain - without permission - but for recordings you need permission and the writer/composer gets royalties for every unit sold and every time it's broadcast/played on the radio or TV- royalties are collected via APRA.

For specific shows'plays/ theatre /musicals etc I think you need the copyright owners nod - but never for individual songs played at live gigs !

If that were the case there'd be thousands of singers and musicians in jail in OZ

Unless this guy in Pattaya was playing previously unreleased material -it seems strange as does the fact that the complainants had some paperwork with them for the BIB to examine...... as if they travel to concerts with this stuff in their back pocket.

This is turning into a bountiful time for the Thong Lor police -with the Red Bull case still on the books and now this case falling into their laps it looks like 2013 could be a very rewarding year. As for Khun Phee wanting to die, I've seen him on TV and he dies on stage every time.

Chalerm once again proving that stupidity knows no bounds

PT want to consider offering Barnhard the education ministry instead of tourism ??? <deleted> are they thinking ? Education is too important to be shopped around by these fools and into the hands of a mafia don like the buffet king !

Two friends of mine - guys in their sixties -Aussie and a Brit were moaning about having to get up an piss all thru the night because of their diabetes - then someone recommended they take some apple cider vinegar every day and they did and I'm told they were able to sleep thru the night as a result and their blood pressure normalised....

Priceless.

All I've heard from Sukumpol so far is accusations - unless I've missed something he has yet to produce any evidence whatsoever.

A few lemongrass or mint plants on the balcony helps to keep the mosquitos from hanging around. They don't seem to like them very much.

Kerry Packer on paying tax : " There's nothing wrong with minimising tax. Anyone in this country who doesn't minimise their tax wants their heads read, because as a govt I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra". That Wickenby witchhunt gave Paul Hogan hell for years.

Lol...It pays to not F@#k up

You got to wonder what sort of an ahole calls the cops over a pair of socks- I know there's a principle here but... really... they could just as easily have taken the socks off him and warned him...

Starting to see why he was so disliked by the Nepalese people.

Guess it's got something in common with the Thai parliament....

I know someone who was in court on Monday. Apparently as of last month ,regarding possesion for a first offence the judge can send you to rehab but for a second offence it's now a two year sentence in jail

"Ms Yingluck has also clarified the situation in the southernmost provinces to Muslim nation". What <deleted> ! She doesn't have a clue what's going on so what he means is that she lied thru her teeth as do all thai politicians about the south and has now washed her hands of it, like most thai politicans. Our absentee PM seems to avoid all things that won't make her look good which is a shame cos she already looks good !

Whoever forces students to deal with such total crap needs a lobotomy. I just waded knee deep through the pile of rubbish that they call the GAT. What a sham !