the cow can mooo all it wants to... that and five bucks will get it a cup of coffee at $tarbucksShe can complain, but as long as he pays the royalties, there’s nothing more she can do.
Ha ha. What a bunch of pansies the careerist GOP are.
These phonyass “celebrities” need to just shut up and do their crying on the way to the bank. I would have never purchased a Pretenders CD if it hadn’t been for Rush Limbaugh.
I am a Cruz supporter, and I sometimes wonder if Trump is a true conservative - but I do absolutely LOVE Trump when he does stuff like this. A huge middle finger to this singer and the hollywood egos!!
He ought to use the “DX” theme song. I’m sure WWE would be OK with it.
This crap comes up in every election. He doesn’t need her permission, all he needs is a public performance license from ASCAP or BMI. Period.
This is just an excuse for left-wing liberal performers to make noise.
the cow can mooo all it wants to... that and five bucks will get it a cup of coffee at $tarbucksBelieve it or not, ASCAP actually sends people to public places such as restaurants, bars and retail shops and if they hear music that is protected by copyright and the proprietor is not paying the necessary royalty, he can get assessed a fine and even be sued. I believe businesses have actually been shut down over this.
As well, if I invite you over to a barbeque at my house and I play a Steely Dan record for you or even if I'm rolling down a public street playing it in my car with the windows rolled down, I am legally obliged to pay public performance royalties.
My point is that so long as the necessary royalties are paid for public performance, and they may be hefty if you are playing at a rally with 15,000 people, you are allowed to play the music regardless of the fact that the owner of the music may disagree with you politically.
I'm glad that Trump is taking a stand on this.
Shut up and sing.
Chrissie Hynde complained about Rush using her song, “My City Was Gone”, but he’s still using it after all these years, and she’s still cashing the checks.
Go suck on a lemon, Adele.
Trump is trash. People are turning themselves into trash in order to tolerate him.
Bumped to front page!
In what seemed like an embarrassing rebuke, on February 1, Adele told the Republican front-runner that he didn’t have her permission to use her songs at his massive campaign events. Adele might just be the world’s most popular singer at the moment, and any normal candidate would have folded his tent, chastened. Not Trump. At his rally in Little Rock, Arkansas two days later the crowd of thousands listened to Adele’s “Skyfall” before Trump’s helicopter landed. A day after that, in Exeter, New Hampshire, Adele’s “Rolling In the Deep” could be heard blaring behind the candidate when he made his entrance.
The move was classic Donald Trump, shameless and defiant.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/donald-trump-2016-music-gop-213603#ixzz3zVdv3QlT
Sweet!
The real jerk is the media that gives Adele a platform.
What’s Adele going to do? Hit Trump with her purse LoL.
As long as he’s paying for it he’s certainly within his legal rights. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
If I hear “Hello” one more time...... I just can’t take it. Adele doesn’t sing; she wails. I can think of any number of female vocalists that I prefer. Someone like Karen Carpenter comes to mind immediately.
How come all of you seem to have heard of this ‘Adele’ and I haven’t?
For the money the guys has.... he should have some talented singer songwriter write and record a song for his campaign..... Why keep using people’s songs... people who don’t want you to use them?
If you like a lefty’s music, buy a used CD and they won’t make any more money from it. Ha ha ha ha.