First of all how can they prove that because I copied a song I legally paid for...to my hard drive to protect my original investment....that I have caused them any financial loss? I bought one copy and preserved it. That's all. I have not stolen anything.
Second, I did not do it with malice...or to deceive anyone or to claim it was my original work. It's not even their original work. They copied the song and did a word sweep.
When they bought the songs from the defunct karaoke companies....they only assumed...what was left of any contracts with the publishers to use that music and they also bought the rights to the ownership of the orioginal word sweeps....
If I buy the Hoover Dam today can I go back in time and sue everyone for the power they used since day one? It's water over the dam...I like that pun...
They can not make anymore copies of the music if the contracts expired.....and they own the music only from the day they bought it...they can't go back in time....and if they did buy the rights to the song again...it's doesn't go back to the Garden of Eden....and start over..
and if they remake the song with new word sweeps with the other companies musical rendition...then what happens?
There is probably a statute of limitations and I'll bet it's expired...
Nobody had a problem until the new GREEDY owners to over...
Let's sue everyone to get our investment back...
So in the end they will own a bunch of music nobody will be using...because they put everyone out of business....Let's cut off our nose
They buy the other companies out to get there music....but all they got was the rights to the musical rendition and the word sweeps...so they can claim they own it...If they want to make any copies of the music to sell...they need to buy the rights to use the songs again from the publishers....
I'll bet they can't use the old word sweeps for their new musical rendition because the publishers made the original agreement with the old companies and that might negate their re-usage
Just like they changed the words of Take Me Home Tonight because the Ronettes wouldn't play ball with them...so to get around the Ronettes they just changed the word to Ronnie...
If I announce (legal disclaimer) at the beginning of every show...I do not claim to be the original owner of the karaoke music played tonight ...am I off the hook...no ownership is legally implied..