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Originally Posted by Glen Goergen
" If I own my own discs, can I load them onto a hard drive to play them in a show, etc.?
No, you MAY NOT load songs from other manufacturers on your hard drive. The licensing rights for music on a hard drive machine exist only between the machine manufacturer and the music provider. These rights do not extend to the owner of the machine, to load songs from other manufacturers on the hard drive player. Copying the discs on to a hard drive is still copying the discs. Legally, it is absolutely no different than burning a copy of the discs. In order to copy your discs on to your hard drive, you have to have the written permission of the company that produced the discs and owns the copyrights."
Once again I am now lost lol or do not understand the purpose/use of hoster, or does the laptop from mtu come with loaded, licensed media? And what about adding new media? Now I am totally confused!!!! |
This is KAPA's propaganda. MTU hired a law firm in San Francisco to study the Lexus/Nexus and WestLaw databases for what the courts would find regarding "format shifting" from a CDG disc to a hard drive, and performing it in a public venue.
First, there has never been a court case involving this. Thus, it is "untested" in the USA. If anyone knows of a proof case, please post it here. All research we have paid for on this subject has turned up no cases.
The PRECIDENCE that has been established is what IP Justice law firm brought to light. You can read their answers at
this page. In essence, this is the results:
"The owners of Karaoke CDGs, facilities, mobile hosting services and consumers, have invested substantially in the purchase of large libraries of Karaoke CDGs. Allowing them to copy the contents of their CDGs for backup or format-shifting to hard drives would also be a fair use, and is entirely consistent both with the legislation on copying digital media passed to date, and with traditional fair use analysis ruled on by the US courts."
As to recording a Singer's performance and making an Audio CD for them, there is no mechanism to allow you to pay a license fee that we are aware of.
In the EXACT situation presented above, if your singer brings a disc they own, and you play it and record them using your equipment, and you give them back (or even charge for your equipment, labor and a profit), their Audio CD or Karaoke CDG disc and an Audio CD with them recorded, I would be very surprised if anyone would take this to Court, and I believe the Court would rule it as "Fair Use".
However, I am not a Lawyer, and this is NOT a legal ruling giving you the right to do this.