Originally Posted by
nonsense
If a tune plays on a remote platform with nobody there to hear it, has it been performed in public?
to perform or display a work
publicly means — “ (1) to
perform or
display it at a place open to the
public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered;
Looks like there is some wiggle room here... (based on US copyright law as that is what I could find right now).
As for the pigeons, it could be
fun interesting to play a sound file of a Chinook over speakers with a decent low frequency range to see the effect on them.