72 Free public showing or playing of broadcast . . . .U.K.
(1)The showing or playing in public of a broadcast . . . to an audience who have not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast . . . is to be seen or heard does not infringe any copyright in—
[(a)the broadcast; [or]
(b)any sound recording (except so far as it is an excepted sound recording) included in it ...
(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
[(1A)For the purposes of this Part an “excepted sound recording” is a sound recording—
(a)whose author is not the author of the broadcast in which it is included; and
(b)which is a recording of music with or without words spoken or sung.
(1B)Where by virtue of subsection (1) the copyright in a broadcast shown or played in public is not infringed, copyright in any [film or] excepted sound recording included in it is not infringed if the playing or showing of that broadcast in public—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)is necessary for the purposes of—
(i)repairing equipment for the reception of broadcasts;
(ii)demonstrating that a repair to such equipment has been carried out; or
(iii)demonstrating such equipment which is being sold or let for hire or offered or exposed for sale or hire.]
(2)The audience shall be treated as having paid for admission to a place—
(a)if they have paid for admission to a place of which that place forms part; or
(b)if goods or services are supplied at that place (or a place of which it forms part)—
(i)at prices which are substantially attributable to the facilities afforded for seeing or hearing the broadcast . . . , or
(ii)at prices exceeding those usually charged there and which are partly attributable to those facilities.
(3)The following shall not be regarded as having paid for admission to a place—
(a)persons admitted as residents or inmates of the place;
(b)persons admitted as members of a club or society where the payment is only for membership of the club or society and the provision of facilities for seeing or hearing broadcasts . . . is only incidental to the main purposes of the club or society.
(4)Where the making of the broadcast . . . was an infringement of the copyright in a sound recording or film, the fact that it was heard or seen in public by the reception of the broadcast . . . shall be taken into account in assessing the damages for that infringement.