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Now, correct me if I’m worng., but don’t the publishers own the rights to the songs like Paul McCartney found out.

It does seem to be a screwed up system because I bet U2 owns all their material except for maybe Boy and War but even so, they might have bought them back.

Now, I could see the copywrite for their performances, that’s different. However, don’t bars and such pay protection money to be able to play these songs so they don’t get hassled or sued and would Ryan playing this song fall under this so long as the RIAA???? or whoever is paid off, the artest can’t say a thing.

I do remember when Rush played a Pretenders song and Chrissie Hind was so upset that Rush played her song that she stood by her principals and wouldn’t let Rush use the song. Oh, my mistake, she ‘allowed’ him to use her song if he would donate $500k to Peta.

Does anyone know the particulars of the law on this??

I like Dee Snyder but I think he would want his music played anywhere, plus, I thought he was a libertarian.