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You "ARE NOT" purchasing music from us. You are purchasing our services for ripping and storing "YOUR" music onto digital storage.


As a Music owner, you have full rights to have backup copies of all your Legally Purchased Music on a computer hard drive.


By purchasing any music drive, you agree that you have all original copies and that you plan on using these copies under the fair rights act. You also agree that, such music that may be in our collection that you do not lawfully own on Cd's or CDG's and that you have not purchased, you will delete from the collection or take full responsibilty of any said consequences that may occur for not having such copies.

CDG owners have the lawful right to make backup copies of the CDGs they have purchased under copyright law's fair use doctrine, which permits copies for reasonable uses. CDG owners also need to transfer the contents of the CDGs to computer hard drives both for backup purposes, and in order to make the menu of their selections more accessible for the participants. In the case of mobile Karaoke hosts, storing the contents of the CDGs on a hard drive allows them to safeguard the original CDGs in the security of their home base, and it makes their selection much easier to carry to and set up at their engagements.

In cases where congress or a court has directly considered whether consumers have the right to copy digital media, they have declined to eliminate the right to make a copy for personal use or backup, and in two relatively recent laws, they've explicitly endorsed that right. The law that exists today clearly and correctly implies that copying of legitimately-purchased Karaoke CDGs for backup and convenience is a lawful fair use of the copyrighted works on those CDGs. While a Karaoke CDG does not specifically fit into any of the specific legislative safe harbors for copying, the reasons for backups or personal use copies are just as strong for a Karaoke CDG as for the forms of digital content which have already been determined to be specifically eligible for backup and personal use copying.

The Right to Copy Digital Music

While it seems at first blush that a Karaoke CDG would be considered a digital musical recording for purposes of copyright law, in fact, in the one case that has considered the question, the courts at both the district court and appellate court level determined that because of the display of the lyrics in conjunction with the music playing, a Karaoke CDG is an audiovisual work, not a sound recording. [1].

However, of the media for which there are exceptions allowing personal use copies, Karaoke CDGs are closest in format and in form to pure digital music. The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, (" AHRA ") represented a compromise among the competing commercial interests involved in the music industry, in which consumers received a specific exemption from infringement for copying digital music for personal use:

No action may be brought under [copyright law] alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings . [2]

This legislation clearly endorses and allows the copying of digital musical recordings (i.e., CDs and Digital Audio Tapes) for personal use. The single court that has discussed the AHRA in any detail has reaffirmed that non-commercial copying of a digital musical recording, to whatever format, is expressly allowed by the AHRA, and that is in fact one of the main purposes of the AHRA. [3] Implicit in this endorsement are two ideas. First, what the consumer buys with a digital music recording is the right to play and copy the digital music on that recording, particularly if the copying is for non-commercial uses. Second, the market for new replacement copies of digital media to replace or supplement existing copies that a consumer already owns is a less important market than the market for the first copy purchased by the consumer. This is clearly analogous to backup copies and format-changing copies of Karaoke CDG content by the owner of the CDG.

I'm not sure that disclaimer solves any legal liability..

He copies and sells all of theose tracks?

Guilty..

I was doing a search for karaoke on craigslist and came across this ad for karaoke hard drive. Here is the website.

http://www.djkjman.com

The disclaimer is a piece of work.

So nobody from Sound Choice or Chartbuster would like to speak with him? Seems like you could cut off a lot of piracy before it begins but I haven't seen this guy on any filings. Come on cheerleaders, rally to the cause!

Be patient. The FBI is probably involved.

Yeah I'm sure he has a high priority with the Feds with everything else they are dealing with these days.