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Criminal case over handwritten lyrics to 'Hotel California' goes to trial
Yahoo! - AP ^ | February 21, 2024 at 10:31 AM CST | JENNIFER PELTZ

Posted on 02/21/2024 10:53:56 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/21/2024 10:53:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I have always hated The Eagles almost as much as I hate Fleetwood Mac.

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2 posted on 02/21/2024 10:55:47 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I don’t care for them either, but these original lyrics were stolen from Henley and Frye....................


3 posted on 02/21/2024 10:58:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Lurker

I read that Don Henley scours the internet, threatening with legal action music reactors who react to Eagles songs.

Way to ensure that future generations experience your music…NOT.


4 posted on 02/21/2024 10:58:51 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Red Badger

For the defendant, this could be heaven or this could be hell...


5 posted on 02/21/2024 10:58:58 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2

I’m sure they don’t have a peaceful easy feeling.................


6 posted on 02/21/2024 11:00:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Gov Newsome’s tax policy to Californians: you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave


7 posted on 02/21/2024 11:00:59 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: GSWarrior

What is a “music reactor”?...............


8 posted on 02/21/2024 11:01:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: GSWarrior

“I read that Don Henley scours the internet, threatening with legal action music reactors who react to Eagles songs.”

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True. God forbid you try to cover an Eagles song on YouTube, or react to any of their songs. They won’t just make you take it down, they will seek to shut your site down and punish you.

Contrast that with the Grateful Dead/Dead & Co., who welcome people to tape their shows and trade them on the internet.


9 posted on 02/21/2024 11:02:47 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Lurker
You and The Dude are simpatico.


10 posted on 02/21/2024 11:04:03 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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...Manhattan District Attorney Nicholas Penfold said...

Their [defendants'] lawyers have said the case “alleges criminality where none exists...

What, a New York prosecutor asserting criminality where none exists? Who ever heard of such a thing?

11 posted on 02/21/2024 11:05:08 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: GSWarrior

Henley is a pure asshole. Just listen to Rick Beato.


12 posted on 02/21/2024 11:06:55 AM PST by bigbob ( )
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“Henley is a pure asshole.”

He definitely is, and it seems he always has been. B but if he truly is being screwed over regarding the rights to his lyrics, I hope he wins. In spite of Henley’s left-wing jerkiness, The Eagles is my favorite rock group.

Not sure if they’re considered rock, but I also love The Carpenters and The Four Seasons.


13 posted on 02/21/2024 11:14:31 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Red Badger

There are a lot of YouTube “reaction” videos where, for example, someone will watch a famous movie like Airplane for the first time. Or listen to Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. We get to see their reactions. If you get a certain number of subscribers your channel will be monetized.

It’s kind of lame, but it can be fun to watch a Gen Z-er view Blazing Saddles for the first time.


14 posted on 02/21/2024 11:15:53 AM PST by GSWarrior
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True story. My friend ran into Henley at LAX about a decade ago. He was standing near the entrance to a bar with a couple of body guards. My friend approached him to say hello and that he was a big fan. Henley’s reaction was “Oh yeah? Name 3 of my songs, non Eagles” then promptly walked sneering. Yep, a total asshole.


15 posted on 02/21/2024 11:18:24 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Eccl 10:2

“They won’t just make you take it down, they will seek to shut your site down and punish you.”

Who is the “they” here? Is it just Henley, him plus others who were in the group over time, the estate (Glenn Frey), a corporation? Henley seems like a major stirrer-upper in general, while the others don’t seem so much so. (Of course, I don’t know them.)


16 posted on 02/21/2024 11:19:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Lurker

I cancel your hatred with love for those two bands. Great memories. Especially with FM and having met Stevie Nicks when I was a little guy. She smelled good.


17 posted on 02/21/2024 11:25:16 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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**If scorned by some as an overexposed artifact of the ‘70s,**

Overexposed would be an understatement. Back then a buddy of mine would call into the local fm station and complain about its abundance of airtime. And he was a pretty easy going guy.


18 posted on 02/21/2024 11:26:17 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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It’s a thing... You can get really cought up in them too. Just people making comments on YouTube as they listen to songs.


19 posted on 02/21/2024 11:26:52 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Billthedrill

You win!!!


20 posted on 02/21/2024 11:27:43 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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