Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#1
OK the landlord was a naughty boy and should be fined but £4,481 is possibly enough to financially cripple a small pub like this.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Dover-pub-Sportsman-FINED-showing-Sky-Sports/story-27973380-detail/story.html-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
The headline calls it a fine but in that amount there would be heavy legal costs from the organisation that brought the prosecution and payment of what broadcasts he should have paid for. From what I know of that pub there wouldn't be the revenue to cover the amount.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#3
This is one of the lower fines I have seen reported for this offence. Copyright theft is taken most seriously nowadays. We licensees all know the law (or should do) and there's absolutely no excuse for this. A pub in Northampton was recently fined over £17,000 so they have got off lightly.
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