Legal or Not?

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by 2shadow

I have a question that I hope someone here has had experience with.

If a KJ has legally bought all his disks, but a singer wants to use their
own burned disk because he doesn't have the song they want, can the KJ get into any trouble for allowing the disk if it turns out to be an illegal
download?

Thanks Tim

In the U.S., technicly probably yes. You could use the burn't copies (which many people use so the KJ can't ruin their originals), but if you were called on it by the music police, you have to be able to produce the originals.

Now since in the U.S. there is no music police at this time I would not be overly concerned with it.

In reading posts from Canadian KJ's in other karaoke forums it's my understanding that Canada is a bit more aggressive in fighting piracy, so they have to be a bit more careful about having originals available if they get called on it.
That's my understanding anyhow.

Sam

[admin]

As was pointed out, Hoster was designed with the Add Track CDG Button to allow you to TEMPORARILY import a track from a Singer's disc to the Play List, even move it into your Rotation Order, then after it plays, Hoster automatically deletes it. This is legal. All you have to worry about is if the singer's disc will/won't read. If it is a CDRW disc, it probably won't.

If instead you go to the Import CD Tracks screen, and import it as a KMA file, you are illegal and can loose all your computers, discs, speakers, even your car. That's why MTU added the CDG button to keep you legal without your having to worry about it at a show.