It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Oh no! I'm talking purely about use of originals (there have been examples of that.) I don't know of a re-recorded version for an advert causing trouble.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
If the kareoke tracks are re-recorded then surely it would be a cover and be allowed?
Interesting that it was mentioned about tweeting to the original singer - I wouldn't put it past some nerd who's in charge of her twitter account being the one who reported it.
Oh I just thought of another thing - if these karaoke tracks are licensed by the copyright owners, but use of these is limited to amateur home use or similar, then using them for a "published" version could probably be argued as a breach.
And use of lyrics (if any) is very likely to be a breach unless covered by one of these "fair use"/"fair dealing" exemptions.
Not that I'm a lawyer of course
On the other hand, it could be the next young Michael Jackson, better than most current pop stars and bypassing copyrights because of his age
Also I've just realised it's funny that I'm not sympathetic to the guy this thread started about - an adult doing guitar tunes online - but I am more sympathetic to the kid singing karaoke online. I am an inconsistent old bugger aren't I?
Firstly, I feel for the guy as FB deleted his entire account with a lot of personal stuff which was incredibly harsh of them. I can sympathise with the fella. I think that if they applied that measure to the internet, there'd be nothing left.
On the other hand, he seems to think that stealing copyright or intellectual property is OK when there's no money being made. It isn't. people could misrepresent the product and bring it into a bad light or cause it to represent a view that the creator didn't intend.
Frightening stuff. We all play something of someone elses.
When Kodak went under it didn't occur to me to check the Easyshare website. A few months later I tried to log onto it to post some photos. And guess what. The website had been taken down, along with my photos.
Lesson learned: don't trust all of your photos and online memories to someone else who can easily take them away from you.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein