The car repairing company Kwikfit is being sued by the music industry for breaching copyright, by letting its employees listen to the radio.

Oh the crazy world of the music industry, it never ends. Today’s madness: the car tinkering company Kwikfit is being sued for breaching copyright, by letting its employees listen to the radio.

The legal proceedings were brought about by the Performing Rights Society, which is the entity that looks after the royalties paid to songwriters and performing artists. According to them, mechanics in Kwik-Fit centres across the UK “routinely use personal radios”, and apparently this amounts to a public performance, for which some money needs to be handed over.

The sum total of the damages? £200,000.

Kwikfit have taken the “hands off” approach by saying that radios are banned from the workplace, but still attempted to have the case thrown out. Unfortunately, the judge decided it should go ahead, saying “The allegations are of a widespread and consistent picture emerging over many years whereby routine copyright infringement in the workplace was, or inferentially must have been, known to and 'authorised' or 'permitted' by local and central management.”

So what are we to take from this? Well apparently, if you’re in the UK at least, you aren’t allowed to let other people hear the music you’re listening to. Incredible isn’t it? Perhaps soon even just remembering music IN YOUR BRAIN will be enough to be breaking copyright.

Oh and next time you think about playing CDs loud enough for your neighbours to hear – think again.

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