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 nine-year-old or a twelve-year-old or a thirty-year-old for publicly performing a song," said Sidbury.
Glad to know the Senate's got its priorities straight.
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