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City: LAKE TAHOE KARAOKE
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Signup Date: 6/30/2008

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Friday, November 13, 2009 

Current mood:Seeking Justice
Category: News and Politics
Lake Tahoe Karaoke ©, Wall Of Sound, Inc. ©, & Psycho Attitude Productions © is proud to be allied with The Karaoke Industry Alliance of America, The KIAA, as a KJ Company Member. 

The KIAA is an alliance of the major karaoke labels such as Sound Choice, Chartbuster, & Stellar Records, along with KJ's, Karaoke Venues, & loyal Karaoke Singers who together are taking rigorous steps to eradicate commercial practices involving pirated copyrighted & trademarked karaoke content.

By being a member of The KIAA, we must allow KIAA media shift auditors to reconcile our legal CDG's to our Computer Format Shifted Libraries by physical inspection of all of our legally manufactured karaoke content that has been transfered to computer for commercial use. Please view The KIAA FAQ page on their website regarding its members using computer based karaoke hosting.

The purpose of this blog is to inform all who read it the opportunity to educate themselves on how karaoke piracy effects all involved, including the karaoke singer. We have provided links to The KIAA for your investigation as well as links to current legal actions which have been, or are being conducted against karaoke piracy.


CLICK HERE FOR THE KIAA WEBSITE

Karaoke Industry Alliance 


Sound Choice has recently filed trademark lawsuits in the Phoenix Arizona area in July 2009, as well as the Charlotte North Carolina & the Nashville Tennessee areas in September 2009, against several KJ's & Venues using alleged pirated karaoke content on computers.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL 3 SOUND CHOICE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT FILINGS

Following are various news articles on the Sound Choice Trademark Lawsuits. The Charlotte newspaper report states that KJ's & Venues in Virginia will be targeted next for litigation.

CLICK HERE FOR NEWS ARTICLE ON SC CHARLOTTE AREA LAWSUIT

CLICK HERE FOR NEWS ARTICLE ON SC PHOENIX AREA LAWSUIT

On November 12th, 2009, the local Knoxville TV Station, NBC Affiliate WBIR, has aired a report on the Tennessee Sound Choice Lawsuits and interviewed a local KJ, as well as staff members from Big Mama Digital Music, AKA: Chartbuster Karaoke, on the economic impact of karaoke piracy. The WBIR video report states that Sound Choice is planning litigation against karaoke pirates in every jurisdiction in the United States.

CLICK HERE FOR WBIR NEWS REPORT & AIRED VIDEO

You can also view the original Phoenix Lawsuit below:

CLICK HERE FOR A pdf FILE OF ACTUAL SC PHOENIX AREA LAWSUIT
Note: You will need Acrobat Reader to view the pdf file.


President & CEO of Sound Choice, Kurt Slep, has made some public statements regarding the recent trademark lawsuits as well as involvement with The KIAA on a popular DJ forum. On this forum you will be able to view rebutals to Mr. Slep's statements.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW S.C. PRESIDENT & CEO KURT SLEP'S 1st STATEMENT

Mr. Slep has posted a second statement in response to rebutals to the first, as well as commenting on how anyone running a commercial karaoke show with illegitimate karaoke content can avoid any litigation from Sound Choice.

CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO MR. SLEP'S 2nd STATEMENT

Next, Mr. Slep comments on Sound Choice's plans on distributing MP3+G's of the SC Catalog to assist the KJ's using illegal SC content to avoid a lawsuit & become legitimate for around $0.75 a song. Also Kurt explains how legitamate KJ's can inform local venues of what karaoke piracy is & what risk is involved with third party "contributory infringement" lawsuits if the venue uses any KJ running pirated karaoke.

CLICK HERE FOR KURT SLEP'S 3rd STATEMENT 

Kurt also mentioned briefly that Sound Choice has actually bought pre-loaded hard drives from various sources & have turned them over to the F.B.I. for criminal prosecution. We have linked to our post regarding this since the comment was only brief in a much longer post by Kurt regarding other issues.

CLICK HERE FOR SC COMMENT ON HD TO FBI


We commend Sound Choice & Mr. Slep for their ongoing actions against karaoke piracy by continuing to root out infringers around the United States. Even though this is only a beginning, as fellow KIAA members with Sound Choice, we look forward to assisting Mr. Slep in any way regarding Sound Choice's efforts in their planned future litigations.

Below are some past legal actions taken against karaoke piracy:

In July 2006, The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized pre-loaded computer hard drives with alleged pirated karaoke content which led to The United States Justice Department's conviction in April 2007 of an an ebaY seller for distributing these pre-loaded computer hard drives with pirated karaoke content.

CLICK HERE FOR U.S. JUSTICE DEPT PRESS RELEASE ON CONVICTION
Even though this criminal conviction slowed down ebaY listings of pre-loaded hard drives with pirated karaoke content, they still appear on ebaY & on other online marketplaces. Members of The KIAA work closely with law enforcement monitoring ebaY, Craigslist, & the internet as a whole exposing these pirates.


We will maintain this blog with any new updates in the fight against karaoke piracy. As far as what Lake Tahoe Karaoke ©, Wall Of Sound, Inc. ©, & Psycho Attitude Productions © is doing in regards to our KIAA membership, we are following the membership terms which are outlined on The KIAA website.

CLICK HERE FOR KIAA MEMBERSHIP TERMS & CONDITIONS


This blog is only produced to guide the reader to the links provided for their education. Any questions regarding the purpose or the legalities of The KIAA, or any other information linked above, should be forwarded to such sites that the links send you.

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