Record companies have the right to be paid whenever their recordings are broadcast or played in a bar, restaurant or anywhere in public. And performers are entitled to a cut of the royalties. In Ireland, it falls to Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI) to administer those rights and collect royalties on behalf of the major record labels — Sony, Universal, and Warner Music. In 2016, Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP), a group representing musicians, brought an action against PPI and the Irish State claiming the former was using various devices to divert performer monies to record labels. A preliminary reference to…

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