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

[basquebromance]

Is that the top story for the political left?

these are

 

[okfine]

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.

Oh yes you can be sued. Nice try.

 

[okfine]

It has everything to do with copyright.

It has to do with trademarks. Lanham Act, RIAA, ASCAP spell it out.

 

[Hellbilly]

I know all about music law.

It would appear not.

 

[Leo123]

Not true. You need permission from the copyright holder.

Only if you claim it as your own original work.

 

[Hellbilly]

Only if you claim it as your own original work.

Why would you write and record a piece of music and not claim it as your own?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Which is why we have copyright laws.

That's why this is so stupid. They can't regulate who plays the songs anymore that an author can regulate who reads their books.

As long as Lake pays the royalties (she did) then there is NOTHING the wokester morons of the Petty estate can do.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Not true. You need permission from the copyright holder.

No, you sure don't.

No more than I would need permission to read one of Stephen King's trash novels.

All you have to do is pay the royalties - like any radio station playing the song.

Sorry wokesters.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Bullshit.

There is some REAL stupidity among the fascists on how this all works.

 

[Hellbilly]

No, you sure don't.

No more than I would need permission to read one of Stephen King's trash novels.

All you have to do is pay the royalties - like any radio station playing the song.

Sorry wokesters.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Uncensored2008]

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

Copyright Law of the United States

www.copyright.gov

What a fucking moron.

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[Uncensored2008]

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

I don't know about that.

The only money that will roll in is from royalties. Pretty stupid to try and cut off a revenue stream.

Of course they have no ability to. They're just load mouthed wokesters throwing a tantrum.

 

[Uncensored2008]

You have no idea what you're talking about.

What a fucktard you are,

Dig that ignorance, really grind it in, moron.

Do you REALLY thing Tom Petty gave permission to every radio station across the globe that played one of his songs>

You REALLY think that?

Ah the stupidity that makes a wokester...

 

[toobfreak]

Tom Petty’s estate is looking into suing MAGA anti-democracy grifter Kari Lake

Kari is anti-democracy?

for hijacking his music “to promote her failed campaign”

Hijack? Some old song by Petty out in the public domain? Good luck with that.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Oh yes you can be sued. Nice try.

What would you sue them for, smart boi?

When you PUBLISH a song, you have ONE right - to be paid for it's use. This is called a "royalty" payment, Royalties are based on scales of the type of use.

SINCE the Lake campaign paid the statutory royalties - what EXACTLY would the Petty estate sue for?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Kari is anti-democracy?


Hijack? Some old song by Petty out in the public domain? Good luck with that.

Petty's song are not public domain.

You play em' you pay.

As it should be. But the bullshit about "permission" is laughable. You pay the statutory royalty - end of story.

 

[Leo123]

Why would you write and record a piece of music and not claim it as your own?

Not the point. We were discussing the USE of copyrighted material.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It would appear not.

Dude, you're a blowhard.

You WANT things to be a way that supports your partisan idiocy - but what you spew has ZERO relationship to reality.

 

[Hellbilly]

Hijack? Some old song by Petty out in the public domain? Good luck with that.

Public domain doesn't happen until the creator has been dead for 70 years.

 

[Hellbilly]

Not the point. We were discussing the USE of copyrighted material.

Copyright holders (usually the RIAA, but not in Pettys case) have the power to deny anyone from using intellectual property in public.