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Old August 3rd, 2006, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by ddouglass
As far as the legality, is it really legal to take a song from a copyrighted CD, strip the vocals, add the lyrics and create your own karaoke song without getting a release from the original producer?
It is our understanding that if you BUY an Audio CD, you can do anything you want with it except give a copy of it to someone else. That includes if you vocal reduce the music, add lyrics (or not) and sing to it, you can do that but you can't let anyone else get a copy of it. You alone can use what you pay for.

Now, if THEY also buy the same Audio CD, then I see nothing wrong with your giving them a copy of what you did with the song(s), if you want to, as they could do the same with their purchased song(s).

You can use 8 seconds of a song without paying royalties... any 8 seconds is my understanding, not just the first 8.

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