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Originally Posted by cartunesdj
Tricerasoft has offerings from Karaoke Monthly, Zoom, and others.
CAVS USA has their own branded versions as well as others, although I don't recall which brand at this time.
I've used both and they are perfectly legit. Remember to save your electronic receipts.
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I DISAGREE!!!
First, DO NOT equate legal AUDIO with legal KARAOKE. They are different formats, and everything I have heard, and paid Lawyers to research, says they are different.
DISC DISTRIBUTION rights is NOT the same as DIGITAL DOWNLOAD RIGHTS. To sell a karaoke disc is granted in the USA, but to provide digital downloads is entirely different. That... I am confident of. About 6 months ago I was discussing this with two of the most reputable Karaoke Producers in the USA. Both told me the Record Labels and others who own the copyrights are NOT granting digital download rights for Karaoke.
To our knowledge... CAVS, a Korean company, has no license to distribute or digital download music in the USA,
To our knowledge... Tricerasoft, nor the producers they sell, have the right to digital downloads in the USA. Thus, their sales are illegal. Even though they are a Canadian company, their store is in the USA. Our lawyers forced removal of all their "Video Hoster" product from the shelves in the USA as they were infringing on our REGISTERED MARK "Hoster". I know first hand.
Our legal experts say that paying CAVS or Tricerasoft for songs does NOT give you the legal right to perform them, even if you keep their invoices. I'm simply reporting what I have been told by those who know and are in touch with the Record Labels who hold the digital rights.
If I were going out doing shows, I would NOT buy digital downloaded songs because I know of no one in the USA with digital download rights to Karaoke music.
Zoom is a bootleg producer, paying no royalties from what our contacts in the UK tell us.
I'm interested why you say "they are perfectly legit." Have you written "your vendors" to get a legal statement that they do have DIGITAL DOWNLOAD RIGHTS in the USA? Maybe you should...
As to the Pro-Burn custom discs with $3.00 - $5.00 a song with a minimum charge, these are made on systems that produce discs, and the royalties are automatically captured and paid to the "legal" MCPS licensing organization in the UK. I personally am in touch with them.
They SPECIFICALLY REFUSE to grant the rights for digital download, but are fully licensing to produce custom discs of songs they license.
FYI:
Read the legal research MTU has paid thousands of dollars for... just so you have the very best legal answers to your questions. However, you will not find digital downloads addressed there.