The National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores) has backed an announcement by the National Copyright Office (ONDA) that opposes that restaurants, bars, hotels and other establishments have to pay for screening the FIFA World Cup games in their public areas. Asonahores says that they have received dozens of calls from restaurants, malls and hotels protesting a private company’s ban on transmitting the games in public places without paying rights to them. The company says it has acquired exclusive rights to the showing of the FIFA games in public areas. ONDA says the games are not protected by Dominican law 65-00. What is protected is the right to TV transmission by Channels 5 and 15.