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While that may indeed be the intent, an aggressive prosecutor could make a strong argument that individual streamers dancing or singing unlicensed karaoke are p
by btown 6y ago
While that may indeed be the intent, an aggressive prosecutor could make a strong argument that individual streamers dancing or singing unlicensed karaoke are providing a digital service (the word "platform" never appears in the text) that "is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works." Which would now be a freaking felony.
- dllthomas 6y agoGoing by the quoted portion of the bill up thread, "platform" doesn't appear in the relevant portions text but neither does "digital service" - it says "digital transmission service". I am not certain whether that makes a difference.
- dllthomas 6y agoFrom the definitions section of the bill as linked above: > the term ‘digital transmission service’ means a service that has the primary purpose of publicly performing works by digital transmission; So it probably makes less of a difference than we might hope.