Assuming you have legally paid for all your MP3 songs, and Karaoke CDG discs, then in the USA, even though Sound Choice and Stellar Records keep trying to intimidate users and venue owners both, everything at
http://www.mtu.com/support/copyright-notes.htm that MTU has paid for this legal research, indicates you DO HAVE the legal right to format shift to a hard drive playback, and you can perform them in a public venue (bar, nightclub, social clubs, etc.).
However, if you have EVEN ONE illegally gotten song or karaoke cdg file, you'll get cooked on the barbie if they ever audit your song library. CLEAN IT UP NOW before you go any further. There is no mercy for those who have illegal songs. Protect yourself now.
I'm confident in our legal research. Ms. Robin Gross of IPJustice.org who did it for us, is all over the world. She chairs committees, was appointed by the Secretariat of the UN for positions on Intellectual Property rights, she attends WIPO conferences, etc. to insure she keeps up to date on what is happening worldwide. She also is a
CONSUMER ADVOCATE, and thus is at odds with the Corporate Lawyers, who want to squash your rights to use what you pay for.
That's the best we can say from the USA. We haven't got any help in our research either. That's why we have paid in 2003 and 2007 for our own legal research. Until it goes to court, no one will know for sure.
