does my karafun subscription provide me with a license

Visitors to the karaoke bar simply pay for food and drinks and enjoy the karaoke services. As per copyright laws, the venue owner is supposed to comply with copyright laws and pay for any copyrighted music being 'exploited' in its premises. Smule the app is a virtual karaoke bar- the venue, and Smule the company is the owner of this karaoke bar. So, 99.5% of the remaining tracks, uploaded by users, allowed by Smule, are unlicensed & illegal - copyright violations.

So 5000 legal tracks, out of a total 1 million. So, let's just estimate and round off the total figure (of tracks mentioned in Facts 2,3 & 4) to 5000. We could assume 1-3 tracks per artist.įact4: Also, any other songs that might've been composed by Smule users themselves and added by them here are also legal since the copyrights rest with the creator. (I don't know why these are two different numbers on the website, and in the app, but refer to the below 2 screenshots).įact 3: Smule follows 441 accounts, most of them appear to be Partner Artists. Looking at Smule's profile itself, it appears there are 2582 or 2622 songs uploaded by Smule. Let's assume it is just 1 million.įact 2: The licensed, legal tracks are those uploaded by Smule itself, by its Partner Artists (both listed in its 'Official Songbook' page on its website /songs). Fact 1: Smule states on its app store page - 'millions of songs to sing'.

Does my karafun subscription provide me with a license