Not being a lawyer, thanks to a good career path change, I personally try to clarify EVERYTHING I can in writing. Every week at my bar I print a new weekly letter from me that explains our policy, how we run our show, what's new and revisiting old policies. This is printed every week and placed in the front of all 10 of my karaoke books.
Of course, I print it myself. I don't have a lawyer do it. If I did, you wouldn't have ANY idea what I was trying to say or even if we were talking about karaoke.
I am guessing that someone wrote that for their website and it was my oversite, probably my zeal, that interjected something that wasn't spelled out right there.
This thread began under a false impression. The originator of this thread was confused about having tracks PRE-INSTALLED on a hard drive. This is CLEARLY not what hoster does, no tracks are pre-installed. Hoster is the software that allows you to take, assumingly, cd's you already own a license for and place them on your hard drive. It is up to the operator of the software to police themselves regarding that they ACTUALLY have a license for the disks they are installing.
I started by quoting a significant case and then brought up what I considered one of the most liberal policies I had seen. Whether this policy is correct, is another story. I can't imagine, for example, that Disney would grant such a blanket license to a manufacture of music. Even if the words aren't on the screen
October 28th, 2003, 06:38 AM
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