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then DON'T.

Custom discs rock... especially once you rip them to the puter!

You MAY pay a bit more that way, but broken down per song... it's actually cheaper to do it that way!

 LOL  They will pry my hot and rockin hard drive from my cold and clammy fists!!!

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We will never.........live long enough to find out. This ridiculous nonsense has been going on for years, and will continue to be debated long after ya'all are doing your rocking sitting down on the front porch, holding your great grand youngin's on yur laps. Play your disc, copy, backup,convert, converse, debate, change formats, sue, swear, argue, cdg your mp3's, compress your super cdg and whatever else we have to do to get by....just...HAVE FUN AND DO IT!
I just love this forum.....

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Sweet Little Me In Karaokeland........

As I mentioned before, I have tried several times to find out about Licensing through two of the biggest in the industry, ASCAP and BMI and never got a response. Well I tried again and their response would probably apply to all DJ/KJ's considering that licensing is the responsability of the venue owner not the employee. The response came from ASCAP and the question asked was pertaining to payment of royalties.

"If the parties are private parties, such as those held at private homes, or
for wedding receptions, bar  mitzvahs, and other celebrations at which
generally only family and/or close acquaintances would attend, the parties
would be exempt from licensing."

I don't KJ/DJ at bars, tried it and hated it. I asked specifically asked about my situation working private parties. The KJ/DJ working the bar scene couls simply have the bar owner or manager sign a disclaimer that they are responsible for all royalties for the entertainment to cover your but.... That's what I would do.

I realize that this still doesn't answer the question specifically on the issues of making back up copies, format change ect ect but honestly i really don't think that it would be very smart to start chasing down the guys in the field when there are much bigger fish to fry....

i agree 100% with karyoker, and johnbaum ....rigor mortis will set in before they pry apart my moist half decayed flesh from around my backups....

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Sweet Little Me In Karaokeland........

Famous is going to lose money, not make it.

Like millions of karaoke singers, my wife and I buy original artists recordings to practice from, but then to save a few dollars buy a download file to make our own disk, since buying a karaoke disk for just one song is stupid.  (Buying an entire album of the original is usually not an issue, since there is usually many songs on an original album to be enjoyed, unlike a CDG disk with one good song and 8-12 useless ones.)

Famous Music needs to do the math.  If millions of karaoke singers will not buy original CDs to practice from because they cannot download singles, the net should put them in the red.

I wonder how much hounding they will get from artists, owners, etc, over the loss of sales of original disks?

It is also amazing that for a few simple people to have a little simple fun in their lives someone like Famous Music is has to screw it all up.