On their website:
Downloading music from Karaoke Version is 100% legal. We honor the MCPS and SACEM agreements by compensating the artists of the reproduced music tracks you download so that all copyrights are respected.
Use for public events
We are happy to allow the use of our soundtracks for public audiences and other performances.
However, we'd like to remind you that in order to be legally compliant, you must receive an official agreement from your national music rights management office (MCPS in the UK for example).
In the case of a non-commercial private event, use of soundtracks is, of course, allowed and unrestricted.
According to the statement that they make about legalities, anything purchased from SelectATrack, SBI, and Tricerasoft may also not be legal for use in the US, but many of us still purchase songs from these companies and use them in our shows. The entire legality issue may never be clearly answered. I would assume, however, that by making your own CDG file for the backing tracks as a KJ you would be infringing on the sync rights. Is that a risk some are willing to make? Perhaps. As long as you are not trying to profit form it, I doubt anyone will come knocking down your door.
Everyone on this forum seems to argue legalities to death, and no one can give any clear answers. The only clear answer is that if it is manufactured in the US and you use the disc to play the track, then you are legal. Anything else is up to questioning.
However, I'm sure there are several signers that may want songs for their own personal use that can be made. If a singer brought in one of these tracks and asked a KJ to play it, would the KJ be held liable? Maybe. This thread wasn't really intended to go into the undefined legalities of tracks produced by this company, but more for those signers that REALLY would like to be able to sing a song that isn't made for karaoke.
So perhaps it should be geared more towards the singers that frequent the forum than the KJs worried about being 100% legally compliant, as any track produced outside of the US is not 100% legal for public performance in the US based on royalty rights. It appears though that KJs in the UK and Canada would have nothing to worry about, and any other country that uses MCPS and SACEM.
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I've seen them sung at karaoke. I even saw one with a Sound Choice logo at the beginning.