Posted on 05/23/2014 10:51:49 PM PDT by This Just In
Sarah Palin's 2008 vice presidential campaign used the Heart classic Barracuda to play off the popular politician's nickname.
Heart reacted quickly, demanding the campaign to stop using the song at once.
Now, Heart is hoping that not only will Hillary Clinton run for the White House in 2016 but that she'll use the group's music along the way.
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“I thought Mrs. Slick Willie had already chosen “Man of Constant Sorrow” as her theme song. “I ain’t no ways tared!””
well, it was a better accent than Kerry’s “can I git me a huntin’ license here?”.
and also a little better than biden’s “he’s gonna put y’all back in chains”.
LOL! Yup!
I believe you left out
Alone
:^)
I thought if you paid royalties, neither the artists nor anyone else could prevent you from using or playing their music.
Because really, there’s nothing that can make your thirty-to-forty-year-old tunes fresh and cool quite like getting a late-sixties-and-looks-older woman politician to use them as entrance and exit music.
Generally this is true, but if an artist owns the copyright to the song or composition, it’s their property and they have the power to allow or deny the use of their music.
AFAIK, if an artist has sold their songs to a "label", the "label" can demand royalties as they see fit. And can award usage to whoever they see fit.
Very few artists actually OWN their songs.
Once you've signed on the line that is dotted, you get whatever the "label" throws your way.
Example: Nirvana.
David Geffen got $50 million, Nirvana got one million from their first album.
Split three ways.
Fair? I dunno.
Those starving artists were probably plenty happy to just stop eating gas station hot dogs for a while.
One of the very few artists to actually "own" his music is Bob Dylan.
Once you've made it in the business, THEN you can negotiate.
Is Ann Wilson still as big as Alaska?
Kind of liked a few of their songs, but Hillary supporters, push the lever and *Ba-whoosh*.
If you’ve sold your songs to a label you relinquish all rights to your material. The label doesn’t have to “demand” anything because they own the songs/compositions.
“Very few artists actually OWN their songs”
Note true.
You sited Nirvana. The contract agreement doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with copyrighted material. If Nirvana’s contract with Geffen involved recording, producing, distribution, PR, promotion, etc., the record company will require payment for all of these before the artist sees a dime. If they signed over the rights to their music to Geffen, that was their decision. I’m sure Geffen didn’t force them to sign.
According to my family’s experience in the music industry, a lot of artist are too lazy or foolish to consider the business end of the industry. They’re not the victims in this game. A number of musicians don’t wish to deal with the details involved in signing contracts and understanding the terms of an agreement.
Heart, rhymes with fa**. The old, grey mares ain’t what they used to be.
I’d suggest the Rolling Stones’ “Bitch”.
And you could add Elton John’s
“The Bitch is Back”.
It's why Rush can play his Theme Song over and over and over and Chrissie Hynde can do nothing but cash the checks and grumble...
Ahh No.
When you produce a mechanical recording and sell it you then can't tell people how to use it in a (and this is the important part) "live performance" however you CAN control it if that mechanical recording is used in another mechanical recording.
Within the context of the dialog between Freeper boop and I, your statement was included in my point.
Hate that they are such dumb a’s
If you’re a song-writer, it’s important to start your own publishing company. That’s where the money is. A friend of mine wrote “Time Won’t Let Me,” and he got checks every few months. Nice checks, as that song was used in movies, and on “Oldies” collections.
Perfect. But I love that song and hope she doesn’t. To this day I can’t listen to Fleetwood Mac.
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