With its fireplaces and cozy rooms, Heska's Sugar Shack looks like the sort of place you want to stay in awhile.

In addition to sandwiches and sugary snacks, the Mentone cafe offers another treat - a record player and a large collection of records for patrons to sit and listen to as they eat their meal.

That is, Heska's did offer the record player, and live music and even free guitar lessons - up until about a month ago.

That was when Heska's was notified by BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), a music licensing corporation, that the cafe's open-mike sessions and record-playing could be in violation of copyright laws.