| From the Where2sing.com forum: are incorrect. The karaoke hosts fully knew what they were doing. They gave their full permission. Furthermore they knew (because I told them and they continued to record me)that I am uploading the songs on Daretosing and other websites and they even accessed those websites to hear me. I even publicised one karaoke host on many of them (not only with his permission but on his suggestion)....telling those website contributors how good he was.I mean this went on for quite a number of years now..and no one complained I cannot understand how you keep telling me that all this is illegal.Look David...if Where2Sing is not willing to set up something like this...so well and good....Australia as it seems remains fearful and under the thumb of the music industry unlike other countries. You are not speaking on behalf of the music industry are you....as some years ago I accessed a website and I was assailed by many agents of the music industry when I made them aware that I sang karaoke and uploaded them on several websites Regards REPLY from David
So the hosts made the recording of you, not you making your own recording? In that case they should have an AMCOS licence, though they wouldn\'t necessarily tell you unless you asked them about the legality. Do the discs that they made for you have the words 'UNAUTHORISED HIRING, REPRODUCTION, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OR COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC PROHIBITED' printed on them? The hosts certainly should have advised you that you cannot legally upload those songs, and they would know this clearly from the licence for which they must have paid and received.
I'm amused that you're encouraging me to break the law by allowing infringement of copyright on W2S - I'd love to have songs on the site, but only legally. Far from thinking that Australia lags in this issue, I believe Australians are doing the right thing by recognising copyright, and I think it was someone from APRA who commented to me a couple of years ago that Australia's karaoke music copyright infringement problem was not of the scale as the USA's.
Not quite with you, though, when you write ' was assailed by many agents of the music industry' - if you mean that they were being less than kind about your singing ability, and that you had to remind them that you're simply a social karaoke singer, then I think they were being less than kind.
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