kjmann wrote:
chrisavis wrote:
There is no doubt that this really sucks for the folks that subscribed to the Karaoke Cloud. For those that subscribed and also read these forums, the warnings were given many times over.
There will be those that look at this and will accuse Digitrax and willfully infringing on Universal's copyrights and/or trying to pull a fast one on the subscribers of the Karaoke Cloud. in fact, the only thing I can see they are guilty of is not getting everything in writing and signed by the right folks before putting things in play. They were too anxious to get things rolling before all the proper agreements were in place.
But I do sympathize with Digitrax. If they do in fact have an email chain with someone at Universal saying it is okay, and in in fact Universal accepted the money, then there should be a good faith effort on both sides to wrap it all up ASAP. That is effectively an email handshake and should be honored in my opinion. But there is a lot of money at stake here and money changes everything..
There will be those that look at this and will accuse Digitrax and willfully infringing on Universal's copyrights and/or trying to pull a fast one on the subscribers of the Karaoke Cloud. in fact, the only thing I can see they are guilty of is not getting everything in writing and signed by the right folks before putting things in play. They were too anxious to get things rolling before all the proper agreements were in place.
But I do sympathize with Digitrax. If they do in fact have an email chain with someone at Universal saying it is okay, and in in fact Universal accepted the money, then there should be a good faith effort on both sides to wrap it all up ASAP. That is effectively an email handshake and should be honored in my opinion. But there is a lot of money at stake here and money changes everything..
This is So Typical of the music publishers.
Publisher: Oh yeah we'd love to give you a license. send us 20 grand and we will let you start using our music now while we get your official paperwork in order.
Karaoke Company: Thanks, that sounds great. here 20 thousand dollars.
Publisher 1 year later (Different person): we never gave you permission to use our music, I don't care what your email or this person from our company said. we're going to sue you Using attorney Paul Stacy (Where have we heard this name before? Hint:EMI Vs. Slep-tone) if you don't stop using our music now. By the way, that 20 grand check we cashed is ours to keep because we think we deserve that.
I hope they nail universals <span style=font-size:10px><i>(@$%&#!)</i></span> to the wall.
It is not just the publishers that are playing games and using the legal system to try to recover extra money, but the legal process manus as well. The hosts bought their product in good faith and thought it was an investment in their business. It turned out that the producers of that product at a later date decided to impose new rules and restrictions that were not in play when the original purchase was made. If the hosts would have been aware that certain companies would come back at a later date and try to rewrite the rules, how many would have bought in the first place? It is indeed all about money and power and who has it and who doesn't. This ownership issue is all an illusion as far as the public commercial application of any of this material. No clear line of ownership can be established and all this gray area does is make the lawyers rich, and leaves everyone in the industry exposed to lawsuits.