Cologne - is already a swaying dance? According to GEMA, yes. She was accused of a Cologne landlady:
"In her tavern unannounced, they have organized a dance during the carnival! You must pay! "
GEMA - this is the abbreviation for "Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights." It represents artists, performers and record companies.
Now playing at official events music, ringing in the PRS, the cash register. Clear that there is large-scale operation at Carnival. Eleven people are then on the road, on 15 February 2007 they entered the "house Moritz" on the road Dürener.
Only a few days later got landlady Beate Wieland Blasczyk Post: "When you were dancing in the restaurant unannounced, during the carnival," it said in the letter. For this reason, they should pay damages amounting to 189.20 euros, the landlady: "I refused! When I was definitely not dance, but only geschunkelt. "
The whole matter landed in court. And there they found now: The application is dismissed! Because the judge was decisive: "has been on a music playback in order to dance either through posters or attention in other ways. Even if there was dancing in the bar temporarily during the carnival, it makes it not a dance. "
Beate Wieland Blasczyk is satisfied: "It occurred to me to straighten out some of the facts."
