Lip-syncing your favorite song on YouTube? That's five years in prison

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CHARLOTTE, NC- We've all seen cute kids lip-syncing their favorite songs on YouTube. A new bill could make that illegal.
"I don't think you should go after little 8 year olds that are crying and singing Justin Bieber because it's their favorite person in the world," said YouTube Lip-syncer Cubby Squires.
U.S. Senate bill 978 would toughen copyright laws and make it illegal to upload lip-synced videos.
Squires uploaded a video lip-syncing and dancing to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” to YouTube two years ago.
51 million views later and an appearance on stage with Beyonce… and he's got cyber success.
"I understand the record companies want to look after themselves because it's a business... it's a profit, and that's fine," said Squires.
Squires shot a new video in Charlotte on Monday.
Under the new bill, it could get him into trouble.
For publicly performing copyrighted material and uploading those to sites like YouTube, the bill presents a very steep penalty... up to five years in prison.
Ben Sidbury practices copyright law, including audio recordings and digital media.
"The way the statute is written... It would now criminalize anybody that performs a copyrighted work, which is essentially nowadays any song under the sun," said Sidbury.
So, YouTube sensations like 16 year-old Keenan Cahill would be guilty under the bill... even if he doesn't make any money.
"In theory at least, the record companies or the Department of Justice could go after a 9-year old or a 12 year old or a 30 year old for publicly performing a song," said Sidbury.
From talent shows to home videos, the bill aims to close loopholes of copyright law in the digital age!
http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/top-stories/Copyright-CrackdownYoutube-Lipsyncing--123788699.html

 
This crap with the music industry is getting out of hand. Big business is capable of lobbying for bills while the average Joe is not. Its about time something gets done to protect the average American tax payer from mega corporations that have more money, more power, and more political influence. Yes, pirating is bad but its time that the loop hole get filled with the the middle class and those below the poverty in mind.
 
So now our over filled prisons are gonna be stuffed with 8yr old Bieber fans........ WTF is up with this country........
 
Easy! Money rules over all. Look at all of the extensive lobbying by big business when Bush was in office. Shiz look at what Cheney's fingers weeded into. I believed he owns part of Halliburton.
 
No, but they did have to give back the grammy.

Damaca said:
Easy! Money rules over all. Look at all of the extensive lobbying by big business when Bush was in office. Shiz look at what Cheney's fingers weeded into. I believed he owns part of Halliburton.
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Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people. Following the end of Operation Desert Storm in February 1991, the Pentagon, led by then defense secretary Dick Cheney, paid Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root Services over $8.5 million to study the use of private military forces with American soldiers in combat zones.Halliburton crews also helped bring 725 burning oil wells under control in Kuwait. In 1995, Dick Cheney replaced Thomas H. Cruikshank, as chairman and CEO.
 
Everybody wants a piece of the money, kinda sad when it's just little kids having fun and someone happens to record them.

They need to write a bill prohibiting Rebecca Black from making another song EVER AGAIN.
 
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