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Breaking News, CASTING CALL Trevi Center Entertainment & 5 Star Karaoke This Friday Night is Having Open Casting Call For A New Movie Called (Meet The Sanchez ) Starts At 5pm -11pm. This will be a movie with karaoke singers in it.
Tell Your Freinds To Show Up This will Be a Great Event. They Just might pick you for this... new movie. Also Come out and Ride The New Mechanical Bull. Allways lots of fun at Trevi. For Information Call Trevi Entertainment Center 32250 Mission Trail Lake Elsinore Ca. 92530 951-476-7073 http://www.trevifamilyentertainment.com/calendar.html http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=134629449906658&ref=mf Taylor Swift sues for a few dollars more
Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (EST)
Talent powerhouse and country singer Taylor Swift isn't happy with the millions she is raking in. She is suing for a few dollars more.
November 19, 2009, (Sawf News) - Talent powerhouse and country singer Taylor Swift isn't happy with the millions she is raking in. She is suing for a few dollars more, reports TMZ. The target for her greed wrath is a sports bar in Idaho, The Sports Cellar, that was found playing her songs last year, without paying her for the right to do so. Even worst, they were using her music for karaoke when a BMI 'agent' visited the bar! The 19-year-old has now taken on the sports bar alongside BMI in a joint lawsuit claiming unspecified damages. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), along with the other performing rights organizations - ASCAP and SESAC - collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. News Copyright © Sawf News. May not be reproduced without explicit written permission
Phoenix, AZ Takes Center Stage in Karaoke Piracy Battle:
Written by Eric Godfrey close Author: Eric Godfrey
· July 20, 2009 Local Phoenix establishments and companies listed as defendants in the suit include karaoke hosting companies; Dennis Gorrel d/b/a Big D Productions, Abraham Cortez d/b/a Carousel Karaoke and DJ Company, Dan Dan the Taxi Man (actual identity unnamed), William Ludlow II d/b/a Dirty Goat Productions, Greg Kimble d/b/a Dynamic Sound Production, Debbie Simmons d/b/a Karaoke Fever, Trey’s BadAss Karaoke (actual identity unnamed), Ernest McCullar d/b/a Wired for Sound, and restaurant - bar establishments; Boston’s Bar and Grill located in Tempe, the Breakroom located in Phoenix, the Grapevine located in Scottsdale, Hazelwoods First Place Sports Grill located in Phoenix, Hurricane Bay Nightclub located in Phoenix, Lighthouse Sports Bar located in Avondale, the Regal Beagle Sports located in Chandler. Representatives of Sound Choice with assistance of United States Karaoke Alliance (USKA) members conducted investigations and amassed evidence in the months preceding the lawsuit being filed. Sound Choice is a leader in the karaoke community and has invested nearly 20 million dollars in their karaoke music catalog. In the mid 90’s Sound Choice routinely put out up to 5 new Karaoke discs per month and employed 75 people. With the actions of those pirating their music, they now employ less than 10 people and their last disc release sold under 800 copies, yet can be found on thousands of karaoke systems across the United States. As stated in their suit, “Sound Choice has been forced to undertake this litigation in order to ensure that it survives and continues to produce the high-quality karaoke music its fans demand, and to level the playing field for the legitimate KJs.”US Karaoke Alliance President, Eric Godfrey, stated, “As legitimate KJ’s, we support Sound Choice’s endeavors. Due to piracy we can no longer get a fair price for our services as a substantial majority of karaoke jocks are using illegal content. Almost every disc that comes out is now being shared on the internet or sold on hard drives. As a result of this piracy, all legitimate karaoke disc manufacturers already have or are in danger of going out of business”.Bobby Brooks, Vice-President of the USKA added, “While KJ’s buying music legally have spent tens of thousands of dollars, KJ’s using pirated content have no cost and therefore have offered services for much lower fees, driving down the actual fair market cost for KJ services”.Sound Choice started these actions, but other Karaoke publishers are watching Phoenix as the test case for legal action. Asked what the future holds, Kurt Slep, CEO of Sound Choice, responded, “We hope to set a precedent in Phoenix. We have already finished investigations in several other markets and those actions
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