[Servant of the Nine]

The recordings are sold for private use only, no public performance, same as videotapes.

If I am privately listening to my music at work am I expected to afirmatively prevent others from easedropping?

This is preposterous bullsh!t on a level with the International Olympic Comittee using their copyright on the word "Olympic" to shut down Greek restaurants that have the word in the title. These are perhaps correct in law, but they are laws that need changing.

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[tdadams]

If I am privately listening to my music at work am I expected to afirmatively prevent others from easedropping?

It depends. Are you imposing a cover charge for people visiting your cubicle?

[Anchoragite]

If I am privately listening to my music at work am I expected to afirmatively prevent others from easedropping?

No, but that's not what's happening here, is it? What is happening is the club is playing the recordings with the intention of it being public, for the purpose of enhancing their business. Why are you entitled to make money from someone else's work?