ok sort of off topic but not.... in the uk we have different laws , there is a licence in place for music called the produb now any dj that has converted music to a format on a computer has to pay for a licence
1st tier ...for 1-5000 tracks its £250 thats UK pounds !
2nd tier....for 5001 - 10000 its £300
there are higher tiers but i will use these first two for examples there is a top up fee if you use karaoke tracks so for the first tier it goes up to £300 and the second tier it goes up by £60 to £360
and each year you pay a top up rate of £100 for music or £120 for karaoke for new tracks you may add up to a 1000 new tracks
That's all very fine and well but the licence people don't represent , or own , or manage the rights to any Karaoke track!
After emailing back and forth i got this answer
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Hello Robert
Apologies for the delay in responding to your enquiry, which has only just been passed to me.
No CDG discs are currently registered with PPL and, as you state, this means that the pro-dub licence does not cover any copying or converting of these discs.
You are correct that you would need to contact the manufacturers in order to secure their permission. PPL is beginning the process of contacting the manufacturers ourselves with a view to registering the tracks, but for now permission is still required from the manufacturers directly.
Kind regards
Mark
MARK STEEL
Assistant Rights Negotiation Executive
PPL
1 Upper James Street, London W1F 9DE
T +44 (0)20 7534 1261 / F +44 (0)20 7534 1367
mark.steel@ppluk.com
www.ppluk.com
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when a karaoke track is made its in the style of the original the karaoke manufacturers buy a licence to make this track what they then make is there property , they then own the rights the pll dont have any karaoke tracks as far as i am aware .
KJ's already pay over the top prices for specialist discs as it is , CDG discs are not inexpensive and individual tracks in MP3+G format are not inexpensive compared to music tracks either . But stangly enough if you buy the file in MP3+G format and no conversion has taken place you don't need a licence or if you buy a music track on line again you don't need a licence its just for the converting of discs you have already bought!!
now if i was selling something when i didn't own it and never did and was taking money ...giving people the impression that it gave them the right to do something that it doesnt ...that would be considered fraud wouldn't it? but hey im just an individual.
so they don't represent or own the rights for any karaoke track that i know about so i wonder where exactly does the £20-80 depending on the tier top up go?
The UK system is really messed up !