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Interesting...
I somehow doubt Varsity is influencing the music industry and copyright laws. This copyright war is not new. Metallica vs. Napster anyone?
I'm going to show my true inner nerd here and say, I'm 100% in agreement with all of this. I never stole music from Napster or any of the other file-sharing sites even when they were popular. I never made copies of cassettes (showing my age...for all you kiddos out there, that's a piece of hard plastic with some more magnetic ribbon inside of it that makes noise) or CD's for my friends. I've always felt that the people who were talented (I use that term loosely in today's world) enough to make popular music deserved to be paid for their work. I've felt for years that the idea of using cheer music should be a violation of copyright, BUT I was ignorant enough about the laws to think that it must be ok BECAUSE we did so much changing and rearranging to the songs. I had no idea that you not only needed a license to use the music, but also needed one re-mix it.
I've heard rumor that Taylor Swift is at the root cause of this change, but it's just rumor from hearsay.
The only reservations I have is going to be finding cover songs that my kids will like for our comp routine this year.