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Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos
An anonymous reader writes "According to Copyright lawyer Ben Sidbury, Senate bill 978 could make it a criminal act for someone to lip sync to a song and post the said video on Youtube, even if credits are given. '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. 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."
Parody is also fair use. However, some mashups, are too too awesome to allow petty bickering about ownership stand in the way of worldwide enjoyment, even if they aren't parodies.
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