Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers?

[furie]

Canadian copyfighter Howard Knopf has suggested that recording artists whose music is played by torturers in Gitmo are owed performance royalties (http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-torture-by-music-performance-in.html)

[Recyclerz]

Gene Simmons has enough money already.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

The only music that should be played during torture is Yoko Ono's music.

And she already has enough money.

[IMSlacker]

Stealers Wheel is gonna be soooo rich.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

If we get the RIAA involved it may actually change the Geneva Convention as we know it.

[DolaMight]

so the toturees are paying the torturers to hear this music, and recording artist are supposed to get a cut of it?

Backstreet boys are gonna be rich again.

[patsopinion]

If we get the RIAA involved it may actually change the Geneva Convention as we know it.

with them on board osama will be caught within the week