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ITEM: The Performing Rights Society in the UK has billed a charity organization in Wigan £470 because the children sing copyrighted Christmas carols on the premises. That's double what they billed them last year when they busted them for ripping off artists by singing Christmas songs without paying.

The children sing them, incidentally, at fundraiser gigs. The thieving little snots.

Evidently, this is their second run-in with the PRS. The trouble began last year when a PRS officer told them they needed a license for staff to listen to a radio in the kitchen because it could be heard from the 42-seat tea room.

Because in the music business:



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