"Guantanamo Greatest Hits"
Melissa Mary McAllister
Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers?
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-torture-by-music-performance-in.html
Is Torture by Music a "Performance in Public"?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7488498.stm
Singer David Gray has warned that US interrogators playing loud music
as a form of torture - including his own song Babylon - is no laughing
matter.
"Only the novelty aspect of this story gets it noticed... Guantanamo
greatest hits," he said.
"What we're talking about here is people in a darkened room,
physically inhibited by handcuffs, bags over their heads and music
blaring at them.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/08/23/MN14140.DTL
Girl Scouts were sad, callers were mad, and even one of Woody
Guthrie's old singing pals was incredulous yesterday at a national
songwriting group's order apparently blocking scouts from singing
campfire songs without paying copyright fees.