[jeannineinsd]

This article is from Consumerist, a division of Consumer Reports Magazine.

It is in response to a thread I posted earlier on this topic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3451897/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

Poster SMGFAN posted the link to this article from Consumerist on the legal aspects of this issue.

To me, the main point is: "If indeed the RNC does have proper performance licenses in place to cover all the songs it played this week, it could be very difficult for anyone to sue."

Also, poster Heights posted a reminder to us that George Harrison met with President Ford.

Just for fun, here is a picture of Billy Preston, George Harrison, and President Gerald Ford.

[jeannineinsd]

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[MuttTheHoople]

Just play Ted Nugent and be done with it.

[P-Marlowe]

“Happy Together”?

I violently object to that song being played.

If that wasn’t the worst R&R song of all time, I don’t know what is.

[raccoonradio]

>> “We Are The Champions”

One Simpsons episode, or maybe it was Family Guy, showed a Fox News van pulling up and it was playing “We Are the Champions” (George W. Bush had won)

Mr Harrison won’t be down for breakfast for comment about Here Comes the Sun. He did write a great anti tax song.
Ha ha, Mrs Clinton. Ha ha, Mr Kaine. Cause I’m the taxman

[sanjuanbob]

Great story and enjoyable read. Got a chuckle out of Billy’s “Fro”.

[eyeamok]

Sounds to me like all these Artists and their Estates and Companies need to be FULLY INVESTIGATED for Intimidation and possible extortion, Maybe the IRS should check in to their Finances for irregularities? Any Foundations? Charity’s? Off Shore Holdings not fully accounted for??

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. The first high-profile group to sound off about their music being used at the RNC was The Turtles ..

LOL.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What's the name of that group that makes the NFL on CBS music? Trump should have hired those guys. This right here is completely awe-inspiring and makes me want to put on a helmet and some pads:

NFL on CBS First on Field

[NCC-1701]

I saw George and Billy while they were on tour that year.

[Seruzawa]

I’m not happy about them playing “Love Train” either. Lol!

[Mike Darancette]

I think Freddy is better than that.

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks for posting this. Lots of speculation about this topic on the boards lately.

Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love

[heights]

George stayed away from politics.

[Seruzawa]

I’m not happy about them playing “Love Train” either. Lol!

[Liberty Valance]

Happy Together - The Turtles

[SeeSharp]

Reduce the term for copyrights to five years retroactively and let all these useless has-beens go out and get jobs.

[krizzy]

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.

[exDemMom]

Do bands ever complain about songs being used by the DNC? Or is this another one of those one-sided outrages?

[ifinnegan]

When the Dhims play Harrison’s Piggies and Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls, they won’t complain.

[Recharged71]

Anybody know whether ZZTop would complain? Screw George Harrison, Mick Jagger and other lefties.