The restaurant owner should get a lawyer to write them a sweet buzz-off letter.
If there's ever doubt about whether a local band really owns a copyright, the restaurant could have a policy of only allowing public domain music to be played. That should make it harder for the music industry to descend on them, and if they continued to harass, go after them with a lawyer and seek punitive damages.
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I have to throw up every time Wyden and Udall are given good publicity for defending liberty when it belies their voting record.
They both voted FOR warrantless wiretaps – twice this year, but got publicity for coming out against warrantless wiretaps.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2011-19
http://senate.gov/legislative /LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00075
http://www. opencongress.org/blog/Mark+Udall
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The restaurant owner should get a lawyer to write them a sweet buzz-off letter.
If there's ever doubt about whether a local band really owns a copyright, the restaurant could have a policy of only allowing public domain music to be played. That should make it harder for the music industry to descend on them, and if they continued to harass, go after them with a lawyer and seek punitive damages.