SwingcatKurt @ Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:58 am wrote:
My suggestion to you to avoid ALL OF THIS is to offer to let the custy search for the song they like on your terminal, at the bar, ORDER the CD for the custy over a legit karaoke website like
www.karaoke.com or similiar, let them pay on-line over your machine on THIER credit card and have it shipped direct to thier home.
No need for YOU or the BAR to be involved in any unathorized reproductions or duplications, yet you are still providing a value-added service(which I believe is the ACTUAL ORIGINAL INTENT--to offer a service that none of your competitors offer). Now THAT you could charge them for with no repercussions for anyone! You would be then offering a KARAOKE ORDERING SERVICE for them.
Then if they want to record themselves, they can get a karaoke machine and do it themselves(which you could help them order and charge a bit more for that help and service---you could call it a "KARAOKE CONSULTING SERVICE"
---maybe even charge a fee to go to there homes and help set up thier karaoke machine and show them how to use their new gear, offer and charge for "KARAOKE TRAINING" and show them how to record something ON THIER OWN! Offer it as "A COMPLETE KARAOKE CONSULT AND TRAINING SERVICE"!! A win-win for all--u offer a NEW AND UNIQUE SERVICE, custy gets what they are after at a fair price and the bar benefits from now having new custys come and see and get the service for themselves while selling them a drink on thier visit.
That's pretty much the essence of what I was saying.
begin hypothesis....
The customer makes the legal purchase of the song from a legal download site. The customer rents the equipment to record their voice and burn it to the cd, jumpdrive, whatever. I provide the 'consulting service' as you describe. I sell them an empty jump drive or blank cd which they may choose to use on the equipment they have rented.
Perhaps one way to do this would be to have a separate laptop or one of those nice recording cdg disc players, especially the one with 2 sd card slots, one for playing, one for recording.
end hypothesis.
I'm not talking about someone copying a song from MY library, as that would be an illegal duplication.
Yeah I know this war of words will never end with someone still claiming what I propose would be illegal but there you go.
Jonn
OK, so let's hypothesize further on that analogy. Let's say you own a high quality printing shop. You have the printers that can reproduce the image quality exactly as the original. Someone brings in an original of an artist, let's say a Haring. He brings in the painting he bought and wants to make high quality copy of the artwork and sell them. Since it's a copyrighted material, do you think you will be liable in a lawsuit later? Of course. Just because you had nothing to do with the copyrighted material, you just rented out the equipment for others to profit from the painting, does not mean you have not committed an illegal act.
Matter of fact, you try to take a copyrighted material to your local printing shop for reproduction with full knowledge of you profiting from it or not, they probably not do the work for you.
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OK Just dont walk into one of our recording sessions or venue and start spouting your impressions of the laws. You will spend the night in the pokey and have a lawsuit which will require thousands of dollars in court proceedings.
