Legal or illegal

[BooBoo]

I've spent time reading that KIAA site as well and I have to agree that the organization seems to be geared to only protect a fraction of the industry chain. The problem, as I see it, is the disk guys want everyone to be legal, but they are trying to find ways to skirt being legal themselves. That is probably why that AZ suit is for trademark infringement instead of copyright infringement.

I know the current disk manufactures don't want to hear this, but the music industry as a whole is missing out on a large segment of sales. They have the original tracks and could easily spin off original music minus the lead vocals and sell their own karaoke. The artists would be able to gain what they deserve from the sales just as they do now when someone buys the complete version. The version "we" would get could not be any more authentic than that, so its a win win. The music industry certainly has the means to police the obvious thieves.

[RandyMcCharles]

I have been told that some of the country music producers are starting to spin off karaoke tracks using the original backing music and vocals used by the performing artist. I hope this trend continues.

[billyo]

i've seen those, Brandsmart here in Fla. carries them, like 6 tracks were w/vocals by the original artist and 6 tracks are just pure karaoke tracks, original sound, i think the one i saw was by Carrie Underwood ,i'm just not into country, and most of the private parties i do are into old school 60's -90's & some top 40's kind of music ( i have so much country music on my files ) that's why i didnt bother buying one and they're cheap ...

[BooBoo]

It seems like it would be much more cost effective to use the original tracks. It would eliminate the cost of reproduction and would eliminate the crappy versions.

Maybe they could hook up with a company like SC to add the graphics, or buy one of the current makers program and do it themselves.

That would be the coolest CD out there. Half original songs and half with karaoke/graphics of the same songs. They would sell a ton of them.

[RandyMcCharles]

If I was Brandsmart I'd hook up with SC or Chartbuster or similar to brand and distribute my entire line, prividing original background tracks. If the rest of the industry went in this direction Sony would eventually buy SC and original and karaoke msiic woudl be produced and distributed by the same entitiies.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

i've seen those, Brandsmart here in Fla. carries them, like 6 tracks were w/vocals by the original artist and 6 tracks are just pure karaoke tracks, original sound, i think the one i saw was by Carrie Underwood ,i'm just not into country, and most of the private parties i do are into old school 60's -90's & some top 40's kind of music ( i have so much country music on my files ) that's why i didnt bother buying one and they're cheap ...

Do you know what brand they are selling under?

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Do you know what brand they are selling under?

i'm trying to picture the cover in my mind, caused this was a while back maybe 6 months ago,not sure if it was party time. or one of those off brand label ( black & orange cover)but i'm pretty sure ( 100% )that it says by original artist and original sounds on the cover, i dont know if you have Brandsmart in your part of town but Brandsmart is looks like an outlet bigger than Bestbuy ,but they deal mostly in kitchen and appliances ( tv's pc's etc. )not much in music..

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Do you know what brand they are selling under?

Big Machine Records is at least doing Taylor Swifts stuff this way. both of her CD's are available as karaoke. It looks like they contracted Pocket Songs to do the graphics

Sam

[billyo]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

Big Machine Records is at least doing Taylor Swifts stuff this way. both of her CD's are available as karaoke. It looks like they contracted Pocket Songs to do the graphics

Sam

is pocket songs the one with black & orange cover ? if it is that's probably the one i saw.

[Musicman51]

speaking of being legal...email, or call chartbuster karaoke. Tell them you own one of their cdg's, and ask them if it's ok with them if you download it on to your computer and use it with your karaoke hosting software on your hard drive, and post here what their reply is...