Portugal: Broadcast of radio music in a fruit shop, Court of Appeal of Coimbra, 36/13.1PFVIS.C1, 16 January 2016

The appeal court held that the diffusion of broadcast works as ambient music, by means of playing radio broadcasts through several loudspeakers in a fruit shop open to the public, was a mere reception and not a reuse of the broadcast works and therefore it did not require the authorisation of the copyright holders.

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