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Cornucopia

Woodstok2000 said:

Just to add another layer of complexity, if you show the broadcast on a battery powered device (e.g. a laptop thats not plugged in) then your own home TV licence will cover you (assuming you have one). Plug the laptop in, or use any mains powered device,and you need a new licence for the building. Madness.

Not quite - the portable equipment exemption applies to people covered by the original home Licence only.   It doesn't provide an exemption for other people to watch without being covered by a Licence.   For the situation described by the OP, it seems like a new Licence is required.

brewerdave said:

jon81uk said:

brewerdave said:

Another thread that shows how ludicrous the current situation is with regards the TV Licence!  

Why? If the church hall wants to show live TV they can pay for a license. Don't see why that is ludicrous to have to pay to use a service.

So you would be happy to pay ~ £180 to watch ~ 10 minutes of TV ? I certainly wouldn't !

You can obtain a Licence effectively for 1 calendar month.   That would be c. £15.   You'd need to take out a Licence and cancel it before the end of the first calendar month.

Woodstok2000

Cornucopia said:

Woodstok2000 said:

Just to add another layer of complexity, if you show the broadcast on a battery powered device (e.g. a laptop thats not plugged in) then your own home TV licence will cover you (assuming you have one). Plug the laptop in, or use any mains powered device,and you need a new licence for the building. Madness.

Not quite - the portable equipment exemption applies to people covered by the original home Licence only.   It doesn't provide an exemption for other people to watch without being covered by a Licence.   For the situation described by the OP, it seems like a new Licence is required.

Even that is not quite correct.  As long as everyone watching the laptop has their own licence, you are all covered.  So in this situation the OP would need to ensure everyone has their own home licence, and then watch the speech on a laptop on battery power.  As I said....madness.

Cornucopia

Woodstok2000 said:

Cornucopia said:

Woodstok2000 said:

Just to add another layer of complexity, if you show the broadcast on a battery powered device (e.g. a laptop thats not plugged in) then your own home TV licence will cover you (assuming you have one). Plug the laptop in, or use any mains powered device,and you need a new licence for the building. Madness.

Not quite - the portable equipment exemption applies to people covered by the original home Licence only.   It doesn't provide an exemption for other people to watch without being covered by a Licence.   For the situation described by the OP, it seems like a new Licence is required.

Even that is not quite correct.  As long as everyone watching the laptop has their own licence, you are all covered.  So in this situation the OP would need to ensure everyone has their own home licence, and then watch the speech on a laptop on battery power.  As I said....madness.

The wording says this:  

"You and anyone who normally lives here with you can  ... Use TV receiving equipment anywhere on any device powered solely by its own internal batteries".

So, yes, it's not what they had in mind, I don't think, but your scenario fits the BBC rules.

Woodstok2000

Cornucopia said:

Woodstok2000 said:

Cornucopia said:

Woodstok2000 said:

Just to add another layer of complexity, if you show the broadcast on a battery powered device (e.g. a laptop thats not plugged in) then your own home TV licence will cover you (assuming you have one). Plug the laptop in, or use any mains powered device,and you need a new licence for the building. Madness.

Not quite - the portable equipment exemption applies to people covered by the original home Licence only.   It doesn't provide an exemption for other people to watch without being covered by a Licence.   For the situation described by the OP, it seems like a new Licence is required.

Even that is not quite correct.  As long as everyone watching the laptop has their own licence, you are all covered.  So in this situation the OP would need to ensure everyone has their own home licence, and then watch the speech on a laptop on battery power.  As I said....madness.

The wording says this:  

"You and anyone who normally lives here with you can  ... Use TV receiving equipment anywhere on any device powered solely by its own internal batteries".

So, yes, it's not what they had in mind, I don't think, but your scenario fits the BBC rules.

This is the full guidance that applies i think: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/ss/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=content-type&blobheadervalue1=application/pdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1370006766079&ssbinary=true

powerful_Rogue

2childmum2 said:

You can't use iPlayer without a licence.

You can. You don't need a licence to watch S4C programmes on demand via iPlayer.