Music Publishers Are Killing Karaoke

[George]

Originally Posted by George

This gives cause for one to wonder if the music industry may have bitten themselves in the foot by establishing a precedent years ago in allowing those old shows to take place over a span of perhaps fourty or fifty years without collecting any extra "synchronization fees", or did they?

I guess it would depend on when those fees came into existence, and/or if any such fees were collected even if it was in existence. Maybe no one thought to look at it in this perspective...you never know.

George

I thought is was clear, let me rephrase the point.

Since synchronization of lyrics and music obviously existed as far back as the twenties, IF the synchronization loophole they are grabbing onto now existed all those years, and the music industry DID NOT collect the fees they are screaming for now, did they in fact in the eyes of the law establish a precedent? Can what they are doing be challanged on that basis?

I'd sure want to know if my company's survival depended on it.

George