Posted on 07/22/2016 5:52:37 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
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Let's start by fixing the damn copyright laws. IN EXCHANGE for protection and unique rights to the creative works for A LIMITED TIME, the artist agrees to place the work in the public domain. That 'limited time' at the moment is the life of the artist + 70 years. Seriously. A taxpayer who is alive when a song is created, and pays for the rest of his life for that copyright and trademark office to protect that work, will have their grand children or great grand children benefit from that spending.
That HAS to stop. End the exception written to protect Mickey Mouse. Put everything 20 years or older in the public domain and restore the exchange. The taxpayer keeps their side of the deal, time that artists and authors do their share.
Reduce the term for copyrights to five years retroactively and let all these useless has-beens go out and get jobs.
So if you bake cakes, you have zero control of who you work for, but a singer can control the music you play?
Perhaps the RNC should find a judge and force one of these leftist elites to play live at the convention. That precedent has been set.
MacArthur's Park?
Going through that now with a TV show that aired on TV and was covered.This is a non-profit show.I asked ascap and they said they could not cover us to air on youtube and we had to contact every artist to be able to play.We only wanted to air for the kids that were on :(
Do bands ever complain about songs being used by the DNC? Or is this another one of those one-sided outrages?
When the Dhims play Harrison’s Piggies and Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls, they won’t complain.
Anybody know whether ZZTop would complain? Screw George Harrison, Mick Jagger and other lefties.
What was that song they played about shaking your booty down at the disco?
Why is the RNC playing crap songs from over 50 years ago?! How about something a little more modern and up to date. If you want to reach out to Millennials, play something they can relate to, instead of their grandparents’ music.
Dear Consumerist, No...one...cares
The bands accepted the RNC money but they want to go all drama queen over it.
Aah everybody, get on the floor, let's dance! Don't fight your feelings, give yourself a chance!
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake Shake your booty! Shake your booty! Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake Shake your booty! Shake your booty!
Aah, you can, you can do it very well You're the best in the world, I can tell
That wasn't R&R. But yes, it was the worst song of all time in any category. If Trump had played that song, the campaign would have ended on that sour note.
How about George’s jacket?
God help me, but back in the in school, I had some slacks that jacket would have gone with. I think. B&W pic.
::: shudder :::
I liked Ethel Merman’s cover of ‘Whole Lotta Love.’
Trump should keep playing the tunes he has paid blanket licensing fees for at his rallies. Let the ignorant musicians beyotch and moan and threaten lawsuits. This is entertaining!
It wasn’t that one. The words had Friday night at the disco or something, and shake your booty.
I remember Abba doing Dancing Queen, Friday night and the lights are low....
Booty shaking was the rage in the '70's and '80's. Certainly less risque than twerking.
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