Tom Petty estate slams Kari Lake use of I Won't Back Down: "shocked that it's stolen, used without permission", will sue for promoting failed campaign

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[basquebromance]

let me suggest an alternative campaign song!

 

[BothWings]

Tom Petty’s estate is looking into suing MAGA anti-democracy grifter Kari Lake for hijacking his music “to promote her failed campaign”

Tom Petty Estate Blasts Trump-Endorsed Candidate For Illegal Use of ‘I Won’t Back Down’

A better option might have been Don't Come Around Here No More.

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Tom Petty's estate is just finding an excuse to keep the money rolling in for another 20 years.

 

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[Hellbilly]

Tom Petty's estate is just finding an excuse to keep the money rolling in for another 20 years.

Which is why we have copyright laws.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The estate sent a cease and desist to the fuckup Trump also. What's with you classless MAGAtards? No habla englis?

Who gives a fuck?

Could the estate of Karl Marx demand I not read "Das Kapital?"

Why, or why not, fucking moron.

 

[scruffy]

Copyright Law of the United States | U.S. Copyright Office

Copyright Law of the United States

www.copyright.gov

I'm in the business. Musicians don't stop people from playing their songs.

 

[Hellbilly]

I'm in the business. Musicians don't stop people from playing their songs.

Try using one of mine without permission.

 

[scruffy]

Which is why we have copyright laws.

This has nothing to do with copyrights, fool

 

[Hellbilly]

This has nothing to do with copyrights, fool

It has everything to do with copyright.

 

[scruffy]

Try using one of mine without permission.

Link us to one of your songs

 

[Leo123]

I'm in the business. Musicians don't stop people from playing their songs.

Correct. I have tunes registered with ASCAP and I can tell you, I wouldn't stop anyone from paying royalties....

 

[Hellbilly]

Link us to one of your songs

Not a chance.

 

[okfine]

I'm in the business. Musicians don't stop people from playing their songs.

??? And you know jack.

 

[Leo123]

It has everything to do with copyright.

A copyright is no guarantee it just puts a date stamp (in the Library of Congress) on your original work so that it may not be copied by a subsequent claimant. There is no ban on playing it. ASCAP or BMI will want royalties IF the tunes are registered there and one uses them for commercial purposes. Cover bands sometimes run afoul of that.

 

[Hellbilly]

A copyright is no guarantee it just puts a date stamp (in the Library of Congress) on your original work so that it may not be copied by a subsequent claimant. There is no ban on playing it. ASCAP or BMI will want royalties IF the tunes are registered there and one uses them for commercial purposes. Cover bands sometimes run afoul of that.

Another uneducated fool.

 

[whitehall]

Is that the top story for the political left?

 

[Leo123]

Another uneducated fool.

Actually I know whereof I speak. I have tunes registered with ASCAP and copyrighted. What did I say that was false?

 

[okfine]

Another uneducated fool.

I remember when McCain and the GOP used Running On Empty in an Obama attack ad. Jackson Browne won the lawsuit.

 

[scruffy]

??? And you know jack.

I know all about music law.

Once your song is out in public you can't stop people from playing it.

You can stop them from selling it, but that's not what happened here.