[MeganC]

I didn’t watch the Super Bore but the commercial sounds like it was creative!

[SJSAMPLE]

Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.

[SJSAMPLE]

Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.

[workerbee]

Nope, sorry.

[Still Thinking]

Do local affiliates get to sell some ad time during the SB? Maybe it only showed in some local markets.

[Libloather]

How many beers did you have before halftime?

[Lurking Libertarian]

People think I'm nuts and say that The Beatles would never allow one of their songs to be used to sell crockpots. But I'm telling you, that exactly what I saw.

The Beatles have nothing to say about it, for two reasons.

First, they no longer own the copyrights to their songs; the copyrights were sold to Michael Jackson, and are now owned by his estate.

Second, a copyright owner of a song has no control over who records the song or what they do with it; songs (unlike, say, books) are subject to "compulsory licensing" under U.S. copyright law, meaning the copyright holder gets a fee when someone records the song, but can't decide who gets to record it.

[Starstruck]

I think I’ve heard other Beatles music in commercials but can’t recall which ones.

[cripplecreek]

I didn't see it but I sure like this Mountain Dew ad.

Dale Call

[2ndDivisionVet]

I just searched for it on Google and Youtube and couldn’t find it.

[mrsmith]

Sorry, nope. The only Beetles song in an ad I remember from the SB wa the Nancy Pelosi ad set to ‘Eleanor Rigby”.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Might have been a LOCAL commercial.

We had one here, that was a woman, who SAID she was a lottery winner, and just bought the ad to remind her husband to take out the trash.

It was, hilarious... but, I haven’t read ANYTHING about it, anywhere...

[Vroomfondel]

I’ve been occasionally seeing ads lately for some Campbell’s slow cooker sauces (plunk meat and the sauce in the cooker, set it and forget it), but I don’t recall what music they’re using.

[deport]

Google gives you a lot of websites with super bowl ads. One had over a 100 or more
so you may find it there. Howeveer don’t forget some of these ads maybe run regionally
or even local.

[yarddog]

I didn’t watch the super bowl but I have seen that ad somewhere.

Actually I think I did watch it for a minute or two while channel surfing.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rights can be had for a song these days! (ha!)

Frankly, the head-scratcher for me is the commercial featuring the theme from "Underdog", which I've seen a few times now, and I still don't remember what it's for -- sneakers, I think, but I don't know whose, or why they want to portray themselves as underdogs. People may like to root for the underdog, but they're generally in a poor place in sports.

[Dave W]

Uhhmm, I don't recall any such commercial and those types of products don't advertise on the Super Bowl - not a $4 million for 30 seconds. USA Today has a list of all the commercials, but I don't know how to post a link.

http://admeter.usatoday.com/story/sports/ad-meter/super-bowl/final-results/2014/02/03/ad-meter-story-final-ad-meter-rankings/5173807/

[Usagi_yo]

Michael Jackson owned a large portion of the Beatles Music, but he Hocked it to CBS and probably has lost it now.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"I think perhaps you're confusing it with a dream you might have had."

[edzo4]

The TV station it aired on would have a record of it in thier spot log. They have every commercial tracked so they can properly bill the advertisers.