Public Pigs?

Annanova reports that Raymond Collier, a farmer inward Locks Heath, Hampshire has been reported to Fareham Borough Council for playing music to his pigs also loudly. The farmer has said claimed that the tunes calmed the pigs as well as may convey made them grow bigger. Environmental wellness officers establish that the music was non loud plenty to constitute a nuisance, although an abatement lodge was issued to forestall unpleasant odours caused past times the build-up of manure as well as slurry.

wonders whether playing music to your pigs counts equally surgical procedure inward populace for the purposes of ss.16 as well as 19 of the Copyright, Designs as well as Patents Act 1988. The legal feline notes that there’s no Definition of what constitutes “the public” inward the CDPA as well as then there’s naught to enjoin that his porcine pals don’t count. Also, is playing music as well as then loudly that your neighbours tin listen it (whether they desire to or not) classed equally populace performance?

Performing pigs here, here and here
Pig songs here as well as here
Music for cows here and for hens here