Legal or illegal

[BooBoo]

Originally Posted by gduns

Personally I can't understand How if a bar pays the ascap and sesac fees, which are a performing rights group that any music played in that venue karaoke or not can be illegal.

This may be why SC went after them on trademark infringement, which was a shocker to me anyway. SC contends that playing their stuff without paying them for it illegally shows the SC logo. They may not even test the performing rights side of things in that case.

[BooBoo]

I was being partly sarcastic is my post from before when I called it the death of Karaoke, just to clear things up a bit. I know it's hard to see sarcasm in posts sometimes..

While I was being slightly sarcastic, it is a pretty dark day for the industry all the way around..

[gduns - with the Lord]

If the guys lawyer is smart, all he has to allude to is that the guy was playing a customers disk........ on those few songs. a court isnt going to give him the right to search his hard drive to look for something to charge him with that is a bunch of bull, I see this as more harrassment than anything.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by BooBoo

I was being partly sarcastic is my post from before when I called it the death of Karaoke, just to clear things up a bit. I know it's hard to see sarcasm in posts sometimes..

While I was being slightly sarcastic, it is a pretty dark day for the industry all the way around..

don't worry about it BooBoo, i didnt take it that way, nor i thought about it that way, it's an observation/opinion to what's going on...