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Gentlemen lets keep this on subject which is the cases in Virginia. If you do not have something to add to that subject do not post it in this thread.
Personal attacks will not be tolerated in any of the Forums by MTU or myself.
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
It would appear that Sound Choice is fishing with a large net. How, exactly, do they verify that a KJ who performs at a bar with a computer DOESN'T have a legal CDG for each computer file they play in a bar?
I may have missed something, but it does appear that they served a large number of bars and KJs with a lawsuit, forcing them to defend themselves, without any evidence to prove that the KJs were operating illegally. |
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
You hit it right on the head. No evidence.
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
I'm waiting for this thing to backfire on Sound Choice with an innocent kj suing SC for slander and other charges, but in reality, as i have stated numerous times, I believe that the percentage of at least one illegal file in a KJ's files is pretty high. Years ago before all of this illegal and legal things were happening, little thought was given to the illegality of exchanging a few copied disk with friends or even fellow kj's as This was before legality of the hard drive or computer issue we deal with now.At that time, i'm sure no one considered it illegal.
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
But Mark what "evidence" do they have? Someone in there employee went to the person's show, saw asinger singing a Sound Choice song, photographed the entry in the Songbook and with that they sue?? They have tried this before and had it thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
They are desperate and trying to get people to give them money by blackmail period.
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
The little guys relief is rather simple. You take the verdict, file bankrupt, and be done with it..yes you can do this under a civil suit. Plead you are insolvent, and indigent. And you're rid of it. However, that won't help you next time, unless they bust you 8 years later..lol
But this point is actually moot anyway. As sound choice and their "Paid By Case Win" lawyers will not be taking any cases to court. It's to their advantage, and only profitable to them, if you do something stupid like sign something, and settle out of court. Kurt has said on another forum, i have a copy of the post. That their purpose is not to fight piracy, but to simply recoup their loses because of piracy. Big difference. It's a money thing, not a moral thing to them. He said in so many words he's too busy to fight piracy, it's not his job. You will be able to count on one hand the cases that actually go to court. Visit the court website, and read the rather sloppy court filings that sound choice {attorney} filed, the author of this thread has posted them. It reads like one long SC infomercial. If this whole situation wasn't so sad..it would be hilarious. |
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Here's something i found on another forum on this subject. I wish i could take credit for it but i can't. But i found it very truthful and a very good point. This author was refering to several disc that sound choice manufactured, without first securing the legal rights to do so. One in particular was the eagles disc, that not being the only one however.
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In the best case scenario, you have to spend at least a couple hundred on a lawyer to get this thrown out. Who has to pay for this? You do. Even in my cases I had to spend a lot of my valuable time getting all my ducks in a row. The worst thing you can do is come to court unprepared. In business, you weigh the risk/reward for all your decisions. When you decide to file suit against someone there is very little, if any, risk involved in suing someone. The rewards, on the other hand, can be great. There are people out there that make their living suing people. I used to work for a property management company that did low income housing. We were sued by a "consulting" firm under the Americans with Disabilities Act. When it was all said and done, we made no changes to the accessible unit for the wheelchair bound tenant because she was happy to start with and didn't want anything changed. The "consulting" firm made $25k to continue their "advocacy" for the disabled.
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
Do you remember when SC moved their custom disk operation to Australia? They did so to circumvent the copyright holders in the US. There are others, but one example is the Beatles catalog. Most have not been released for Karaoke in the US. In Australia, they merely pay a standard rate and can do any song they so chose. Then just mail it to the US. No US laws have been broken until it is used in a show. Let the KJ break the law by performing it in public.
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My advice, learn to live with the pirates. Once a pirate gets a smell of that easy money, all the law suites in the world won't git shun of them. They will just move around, and pop up someplace else. Just like the illegal DJ's have been doing since a front loading table top CD player with effects was invented. They're sadly...still here. I actually don't see it as a direct problem to me, a pirate could never get a foot into the club i'm in. But with that being said, i have talked to many many kj's across the country. Believe it or not, most actually aren't worried about pirates..really. There are a few so so kj's that claim to have been put out by a throat cutting pirate. But after a short conversation with a few, i wonder if that is really the case, or simply a poor performer..hard to say. I have actually accepted the fact that it's going to be part of the business...and i gotta just learn to deal with it. Do i like it? of course not. But like it or not, they're right here to stay buddy boy. Sound Choice seems to be having a melt down because of so called "lost profits". But, you don't hear a peep out of any other manu, or provider. I think it's all one big money making fiasco...And i will go out on a limb and make another prediction. Sound Choice's download joke {site} will be a losing proposistion as well...Just too many guy's P.O'd. I know right now, sound choice hasn't done one thing to me, or anyone i am associated with in this business..yet we all still woundn't buy a disc from them if it were pressed in gold. Thats what SC has created across the country..... |
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This is a reprint from a post I had read on piracy and the music industry
It is sad but predictable to see John Prior (Letters, August 10) trotting out the old fallacy about music that we buy a product encumbered with a licence. Let us walk through my most recent purchase. I strolled into the store, located the CD I was after, paid for it in cash and left. At no stage was I asked to sign a licensing agreement - not even a post-sale agreement like those for software. It was a simple transaction of cash for a physical product. ”No,” cries the music industry, ”you are bound by the licensing agreement that you did not sign and that we cannot produce for inspection.” Fine - let’s suppose I now have a licence for personal use applying to all the CDs I own. I should be able to take advantage of that. A CD I bought 10 years ago now has a scratch down the middle so that five of the 10 songs refuse to play. Luckily for me, this problem is solely with the physical medium. After all, my licence for personal use should allow me to reacquire ”my” content, especially since it is digital data and can be reproduced an unlimited number of times at virtually no cost. ”No,” cries the music industry, ”you bought a product, not a licence. You are not entitled to a free replacement, you need to buy it all over again. And when you do, you will be covered by another identical licence. Until something happens to this new physical medium.” David Jack Leichhardt
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So So true marklwood. Scratch one, your loss. Now, just as a side note. Nothing at all to do with the licence situation you are speaking of. But chartbuster, will replace any CDG disc they produce if you scratch it or it gets broken for 5 bucks. Back when i was still using disc full time. I had a drunk come up to the karaoke table, he picked up a cdg and he dropped its. Gouged it pretty good, it rolled across the dance floor. Took him 3 tries to keep his balance and pick it up. It was part of a box set. Thank goodness it was a chartbuster disc. Then of course chartbuster said they didn't have just the single disc #4 of that box set. I jumped their case, and they gave me the entire box set for 5.00 shipping not just the single disc. But like i said, nothing at all to do with what you are speaking of, as far as fair use replacement. You make a very valid point.
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But as far as a scratch goes, as long as it is not on the label side, it is fixable. A scratch on the label side or a flat out crack is a dead disc.
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But up 'round these parts we are all just about to pull all sound choice products from our notebooks anyway. Monday morning 9 of us independents are going to have yet another meeting over coffee, and are going to hash it out. They all want to stick together and dump Sound Choice, and have a "Disc Fry" and put it on you tube and invite the television stations and newspapers. ah we'll see.... |
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I've only needed to replace 3 SC discs, but they were replaced in a timely manner, had to send the damaged disc along with the shipping cost (per discs) & recieved a new one in less than a week. One of the 3 were actually a Mediacloq disc I needed that was re-released without it. Never had to use the CB policy yet.
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I said on this forum a couple of times, that there is a right way and a wrong way about doing something. That not only holds true for the sleps, but for us as kj's in this industry. Someone, whom i've never met before, and i have no idea who he or she is. Sent me this blog page concerning Sound Choice. Now, i've kided around calling them the slep castpo and gang and that type of thing. But i would never post something like this. And i think just like the sleps, this kind of thing does more harm then good. You can decide for yourself. If dale decides to take this link down, that would be fine by me. However,i think it is just one persons view. And not necessarily mine. Free speech i guess. But i would bet anything the person who made this page was illegal and got busted.
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This is what karaoke companies do when an artist (or their publisher) refuses to give authorization for their songs to be made into karaoke. Supposedly, this is perfectly legal when a certain percentage of the song/ music is different from the original. I heard this years ago, and there's gotta be some truth to it, otherwise why would karaoke companies make some songs with what most people would call errors due to being considerably different from the original. I heard this from somebody who claimed to be good friends with a studio musician who has worked for Sound Choice on numerous projects where they planned to make sections of certain songs to be different than the originals. Anybody ever hear about this? Last edited by Rockrz; March 28th, 2010 at 11:07 AM. |
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Re: something new about this legalities
[quote=Rockrz;100049]Ever notice how some songs have a few lyrics that are wrong, or where the music has sections that are a little different from the original version?
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how would we know who did the songs on some of the older songs, without them putting the name of the artist on the label
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Re: The Lawsuits Have Started In Virgina
If you've ever followed an artist that sues another artist for copyright infringement, claiming they are copying their song, it usually comes down to how large of a percentage is the alledged stolen song is like the original that determines who wins the case.
They actually have some sort of formula that figures this out and I think they do this with some software program. Sure, on karaoke discs they like who the artist was and maybe who the publisher is that holds the rights to the song...but that doesn't mean the karaoke producer paid to re-produce the song on karaoke. I've heard for years (nobody can prove this except for the karaoke producers, and they won't) that many of the karaoke producers, including Sound Choice, don't always pay license fees because there are ways around having to pay this expense and still not get the britches sued off of them. It's be just like Sound Choice to screw the artist / publisher, and then turn around and claim some KJs are screwing them. Maybe they are reaping what they've sown |
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