When hosting karaoke in a bar, restaurant, or other commercial establishment it’s important for the venue owner to pay for a license.
Yes you, the karaoke host, must also have a legal karaoke library. Your karaoke music collection must be sourced legally, which means you’re either purchasing CDG discs and ripping them yourself (one-for-one conversion), purchasing a la carte downloads from legal karaoke manufacturer websites, or subscribing to a commercially legal karaoke subscription…