Marketplace's Philip Boroff reports. The men who were arrested face various charges and are accused of going inside a health care company that brokers coverage for more than a million people. But Ted Marmer, a health care and social policy expert at the Yale School of Management, says there's always been fraud and abuse. At the New York desk, I'm Philip Boroff. The folks who collect royalties for music composers began getting a lot of phone calls early today, after the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story detailing a crackdown against singing in summer camp.
Penalties can include stiff fines, even prison.
And when it's used in business, and as long as there's an admission charge, then it is a public performance that we have an obligation to our member composers and publishers to be able to protect their rights and make sure that they receive fair compensation for the use of their material. If there were a group of four children going on a camping trip, and they sing songs, there's not a public performance in that. But the fact that there is an admission being charged for them to attend camp makes it open to the public. Therefore, the music used is a public performance. But I don't just want to stick to the campfire scenario, because a lot of camps use music in a lot of other ways than around campfires.