Skip to comments.
Elvis Festival all shook up after impersonator rule change
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^
| 18 April 2006
Posted on 04/17/2006 9:17:34 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-52 next last
Elvis impersonators under threat? How ever will we survive?
To: Aussie Dasher
how can you own the rights to the likeness of a dead famous public person?
To: Aussie Dasher; aculeus; Senator Bedfellow; Billthedrill; dead; Thinkin' Gal
An American billionaire who owns the rights to the Elvis name and likeness . . .While were on the topic of names, someone has left something out.
3
posted on
04/17/2006 9:24:46 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: Aussie Dasher
I remember a singer way back in the 60's who had a hit called "suspicion". I think his name was Terry Stafford or something similar.
The reason I mention him is everyone commented on how much he sounded like Elvis. Now he wasn't an impersonator but with Elvis dead it would seem he would have become more prominent, and he really did sound like Elvis.
4
posted on
04/17/2006 9:27:52 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Aussie Dasher
I hope they can work this out. We can't go on together, with suspicious minds...
5
posted on
04/17/2006 9:30:08 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: Aussie Dasher
Sounds like they're "all shook up".....
To: yarddog
Stafford's version was a terrific record. In my book, it's better than the Elvis original.
7
posted on
04/17/2006 9:31:14 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: dighton; Aussie Dasher; aculeus; Senator Bedfellow; Billthedrill; dead
An American billionaire who owns the rights to the Elvis name and likeness . . .<<<
While were on the topic of names, someone has left something out.
It must have left the building.
8
posted on
04/17/2006 9:31:14 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: Aussie Dasher; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; ...
An American billionaire who owns the rights to the Elvis name and likeness is working to stop "unauthorised" impersonators as part of a plan to open a show and exhibit in Las Vegas dedicated to 'the king'. Rumor has it he also plans to step on their blue suede shoes.
9
posted on
04/17/2006 9:34:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(When Al Franken had his bris, they threw away the baby and saved the foreskin.)
To: WoofDog123
Probably the Sonny Bono Artistic Rights Law, or whatever the offical name is.
To: Aussie Dasher
<< Elvis impersonators under threat? How ever will we survive? >>
By becoming Johnny Devlin impersonators, of course!
11
posted on
04/17/2006 9:41:41 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
To: dighton
12
posted on
04/17/2006 9:42:57 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
To: WoofDog123
how can you own the rights to the likeness of a dead famous public person? Your kidding, right? Try to use Humphrey Bogarts face to sell something and watch what happens.
13
posted on
04/17/2006 10:16:12 PM PDT
by
Bommer
To: Bommer
I'm not a lawyer, but I work in radio and my wife is a club performer. Seems to me it would depend on how it's used. If you put Elvis's face in a commercial or on a product label, that would be an unauthorized use. But declaring that live performers who impersonate Elvis as a tribute are infringing on the Elvis estate's rights is a real stretch.
They are not claiming to be Elvis; they are not using any images or recordings of the real Elvis; and they are selling their own "talent" (such as it is) for impersonation, not Elvis's talent. The only question might be how the show is advertised and if they use Elvis' name and likeness without permission in the promotional materials. As long as they have an ASCAP/BMI license to perform the songs publicly, I don't see how this case can be won. Of course, this isn't in America, so the laws might be different. But I don't think Rich Little has to pay royalties to everyone he imitates during a Las Vegas show.
14
posted on
04/17/2006 10:33:05 PM PDT
by
HHFi
To: yarddog
I remember a singer way back in the 60's who had a hit called "suspicion". I think his name was Terry Stafford It was terry Stafford, who made Doc Pomus' 'Suspicion' a top ten hit in 1964. Elvis recorded it a few years earlier, but it did not top the charts.
Another guy, often called an 'Elvis impersonator' was Gene Vincent. His 'Be bop a Lulu' is truly a classic rockabilly tune. Sad story about Gene Vincent, one of many rock tragedy's.
15
posted on
04/17/2006 11:03:37 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("Cynicism, is an unpleasant way of telling the truth" -- Lillian Hellman)
To: WoofDog123
how can you own the rights to the likeness of a dead famous public person? Elvis Presley Enterprises IS Lisa Marie Presley.
16
posted on
04/17/2006 11:10:27 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Michael.SF.
Ah, "Sweet" Gene Vincent, greatest rocker ever from my home state of Virginia! The story goes that Elvis' mama heard "Be-Bop-A-Lula" on the radio and called The King to congratulate him on his new hit.
Not only was Gene a great singer, he had one of the all-time hot guitarists in Gallupin' Cliff Gallup. How I love their music!
To: dighton
18
posted on
04/18/2006 3:38:59 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Aussie Dasher
"You mean I can't do this anymore?"
19
posted on
04/18/2006 3:50:02 AM PDT
by
Liz
(We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
To: Howlin
Elvis Presley Enterprises IS Lisa Marie Presley. In 2004 Lisa Marie sold 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises to Robert FX Sillerman for $100 million.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-52 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson