Posted on 07/19/2016 3:34:39 PM PDT by conservative98
Sony/ATV Music Publishing — which administers Queen’s catalog including songs such as “We Are the Champion” — said a statement Tuesday they have repeatedly asked Trump not to use the “We Are the Champions,” which he played Monday during the first day of the Republican National Convention. Last month, Queen guitarist Brian May also wrote a blog post protesting the use of the song by the Trump campaign.
“Sony/ATV Music Publishing has never been asked by Mr. Trump, the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization for permission to use ‘We are the Champions’ by Queen. On behalf of the band, we are frustrated by the repeated unauthorized use of the song after a previous request to desist, which has obviously been ignored by Mr. Trump and his campaign,” the statement read.
Trump’s representative did not respond to questions about the Sony/ATV complaint Tuesday.
Queen also tweeted they were unhappy about Trump’s use of the song on Tuesday: “An unauthorised use at the Republican Convention against our wishes.”
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But, what if I own a bakery and a gay couple asks me to bake a cake for their gay wedding? How would you have me respond?
Sorry, that’s not the way it works. Are you accusing him of not paying the royalties?
Band leader GE Smith is being savaged by former friends and bandmates for working the RNC. He’s not a republican or democrat. He was the band leader on SNL for many years.
YEP!
LOL. Luckily I was an 80s kid and a lot of the metal/glam rock guys are conservative.
Three Doors Down is also. And The Killers. Gene Simmons, I guess :)
Never heard a peep out of Deep Purple either way :)
Queen is the most overrated band ever.
Just thought I would take a minute to say...who gives a shit?
Maybe SONY could use a healthy AUDIT BY THE IRS!!!
http://decider.com/2016/07/18/snl-conservative-cast-members/
8 CONSERVATIVE ‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’ STARS SECRETLY PSYCHED FOR THE 2016 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
I dug deeper.
1. Right of Publicity covers use of a person’s likeness. Don’t see how that applies.
2. The LathamAct covers trademarks, not copyright so that doesn’t apply.
3. False Publicity covers advertising so I don’t see how that applies.
Did I miss anything?
The name Queen for a guy band is fagotty.
Digging deeper into your link:
“We built into the license agreement a provision which allows a BMI songwriter or publisher to object to the use of their songs and, if so, we have the ability to exclude it from the license,” said Mike Steinberg, senior vice president for licensing at BMI.
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Hillary’s theme song should be “Po-Jama People”:
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“2) Secondly, after you signed the papers with organizations that sell the rights to let people play your music at public events, you have given up your right to control the political views of who plays your music at public events. “
Not really. But by the time you object, the event is already over.
Apparently, if he can’t convince the artist to give him their blessing, he honors their wishes. Strange concept right?
“When Donald started running for office, he asked me, he called me. He says, ‘Can I use the song?’ And he’s a buddy. And I said, ‘Yeah. Go ahead.’ But as the months went on, I heard a litany of his beliefs that I’d never discussed with him. I finally called him and I said, ‘Man, you’ve gotta stop using the song. People think I’m endorsing you here. I can’t get behind a lot of what you’re saying.’ And that night… He has not used it since. He said, ‘Dee, fair enough.’ He’s a friend. As a friend, he called me. As a friend, I called him, and he stopped using it. I still like him, but, man, I did not know some of the things that he believe in and stood for.”
-Dee Snider, Twisted Sister 6/1/16
“3. False Publicity covers advertising so I don’t see how that applies.
Did I miss anything?”
Yes.
It is ‘False Endorsement’
That is true with BMI but ASCAP seems to be the group in question and no such exception is mentioned in the article.
Once you pay the use fee, it’s a binding contract. Trump paid to use Neil Young’s music and Neil got pissy. If you don’t want it used, they pull it off the market to be rented.
It’s not unauthorized.
You get paid each time it is played and you have zero control over the music once it hits the market place.
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