Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Sean Kelly]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
> That just made me think of something that never really occurred to me 
> before: For a long time now (before optical discs), recordings (definitely 
> videos, not sure about music) have been sold (ermm, excuse me, *cough* 
> "licensed" *cough*) with the license restriction of "not for public viewing" 
> (or something along those lines). But I'm not aware of books having a 
> similar thing.

I believe that if you read a book aloud to an audience it counts as a 
performance of the work and the copyright holder is technically supposed 
to be compensated for it.  But this happens about as often as DJs pay 
the RIAA for the use of records they play (ie. basically never).