Posted on 02/01/2016 3:45:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
There are stories like this in every election cycle.
The truth is, as long as Trump pays the licensing fee, there is not a damn thing Adele can do about Trump using her music at his rallies.
Sure, she can look like a sore loser by complaining, but her complaints have no force of law. She just looks like a whiner.
Rush Limbaugh has been opening his show to the guitar riff from the Pretenders “My City Was Gone” for the past 26 years. There is not a damn thing they can do about it.
I am not 100% sure but I think there may be a difference between using a short instrumental clip of a song as "bumper music" and using a song in its entirety.
FWIW:
The opening bass riff from this song "was something that Tony Butler used to play just as a warm-up," said Steve Churchyard, the engineer for the record.[3] It has been used as the opening theme 'bumper' for Rush Limbaugh's popular American talk radio program since 1984, during his days at KFBK in Sacramento, California. He didn't use the lyrics, but Limbaugh said in 2011 that he chose it because of the irony of a conservative using such an anti-conservative song, though he mainly liked its "unmistakable, totally recognizable bass line."[4] In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine reported that, according to Hynde's manager, Limbaugh had neither licensed the song nor asked permission to use it. According to Rolling Stone, EMI took action after Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that "it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time."[5] EMI issued a cease and desist request that Limbaugh stop using the song, which he did. When Hynde found out during a radio interview, she said that her parents loved and listened to Limbaugh and she did not mind its use. A usage payment was agreed upon which she donated to PETA.[4][5] She later wrote to the organization saying, "In light of Rush Limbaugh's vocal support of PETA's campaign against the Environmental Protection Agency's foolish plan to test some 3,000 chemicals on animals, I have decided to allow him to keep my song, 'My City Was Gone', as his signature tune..."[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone
Great song BTW
I wouldn't blame Adele one bit for suing Huckabee for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hVKnUh95c
What the heck was the Huckabee campaign thinking? It looks more like something SNL would use as a parody to make fun of him.
because the night belongs to lawyers.
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