DannyG2006 @ January 4th 2011, 10:54 am wrote:
One thing to consider. What happens if it is stolen and put on the internet for download? With your name on it it will come back to bite you legally. Yes it will show who the pirates are but couldn't you be sued for distributing it just because your name is on the track?
If I purchase an instrumental track from Karaoke version dot com or i-tunes and make a CD+G track for my own personal use and some KJ copies it without my knowledge and spreads it all over the internet; how could I be held responsible if a thousand KJ's wind up with the song? There has to be "INTENT" on my part for me to be charged with a crime. Do you really think that Toby Keith is going to be hunting me down because I liked one of his songs enough to want to sing it at a karaoke bar? How can I get into trouble if I don't make a single penny from this situation?
And do you really think I'd be putting my full name and social security number on these tracks?? I'm talking about putting just enough info on the tracks so that I would know that they belonged to me if I saw someone else using them, as in the situation described above. Let's say that I buy a brand new Chartbuster disc and rip the tracks to my computer and then stamp them with my "CODE". I then bring the tracks that I want to sing to a PC run show on a thumb drive or a CDR disc so I can sing them at the show. If I return to the show a few weeks later and the KJ is using one or more of those tracks during his show AND MY "CODE" POPS UP on the screen; I have a pretty good idea how that KJ got them. If I didn't put my "CODE" on them the KJ would have some deniability on his side. He could just say that he bought the same disc as I did and I wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Just because one of my home made tracks might wind up on a sharing site doesn't mean that I put it there. So much room for reasonable doubt in any and all of these scenarios.