Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @07:22AM from the numa-numa-no-more dept.

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."

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Well how long by Dyinobal · 2011-06-15 07:30 · Score: 1, Troll

Well how long till a Cop er I mean a department of Homeland security agent pulls me over for singing to a song I've on my Mp3 hooked up to my car stereo on my way to work. Because that's the direction this is going.