[Beth Curran]

I'm getting a delicious vision of ol' slob Rush cowering as PG looms on the
horizon, waving a sheaf of legal papers.

I have some memory that one of the other Oils has a law degree too, think it
was RH?  Is that right?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda" <kayak at sympatico.ca>
To: "James Warren" <jimcwarren at earthlink.net>
Cc: "powderworks list" <powderworks at cs-lists.cs.colorado.edu>; "Dallas
Clemmons" <dallasc16 at cox.net>; "Robin Johnson" <robin_m_johnson at hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] US Radio Spot


> It surprises me that he would be able to use that clip then....I'm not
> sure if Aussie copyright rules are the same, but as it works here in
> Canada, to use copyrighted material one has to obtain permission from
> the performing rights organization that represents artists &
> performers...it's SOCAN here...they (Limbaugh in this case) then license
> the track or portion thereof from the performing rights agency via
> whoever holds the rights to the song (artist? record company? publishing
> company?  depends on the contract) and then royalties are paid out
> depending upon frequency of usage, how much of the song is used, how
> it's used, etc.
>
> In many cases, songwriters assign the publishing rights to a publishing
> or record company in order to get a recording deal / financial support.
>  After a set number of years, whatever's stipulated in the contract, the
> rights revert back to the artist...sometimes there's a holdover clause
> though or they revert back "x number of years after the last release"
> which can be open to interpretation and is frequently a source of
> contention...trust me on that one, I helped work on one of those
> cases....ahhh, the legalities of the music business, such fun.
>
> Even if the Oils don't hold the publishing rights to the song (and I
> have no idea whether they do or not), they can prohibit its use on moral
> grounds from being used by someone or for something they are totally
> against.  I'm guessing they're probably not even aware of its current
> use in Rush Limbaugh's ad, and would be totally pissed if they found out.
>
> -Rhonda
>
>
> James Warren wrote:
>
> > In Philadelphia in August of 1993, at the Oils show between the first
> > and second song, Peter went off about how absurd Rush is, along with
> > the fact that he had a new show on television. Peter also encouraged
> > us to throw our tv sets away.
> >
> > After the show, I got to speak to Peter, and he claimed that the Oils
> > and Rush were about as far opposite in worldview as you could possibly
be.
> >
> > -Jim
> >
> > p.s. Although I don't listen to Rush, I do know that for years, he has
> > used that "back to Ohio" Pretenders song as background music.
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2004, at 7:28 AM, Robin Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet (I haven't read through
> >> all the posts lately), but I thought you all might find this
interesting.
> >>
> >> I was getting ready for work earlier this week and I had the radio on
> >> in the background.  All of a sudden I heard a bit of "Power and the
> >> Passion".  "Cool" I thought.  Since we don't often hear the Oil's on
> >> US radio, I stopped what I was doing to enjoy it.  Unfortunately, it
> >> was a super-short blip of it in an ad for a radio show........now,
> >> I'm not sure how many people outside of the US know about the show it
> >> was advertising........I don't know if the Oil's would
> >> approve.......it was for Rush Limbaugh!  The most hateful,
> >> right-wing, "there is no such thing as global warning", who came up
> >> with "strong women are femi-nazi's", "What wrong with Yucca Mountain
> >> anyway" person in the US.  He's evil.
> >>
> >> Since Monday, I've heard the ad every morning.
> >>
> >> Yikes.
> >>
> >> Robin
> >>
> >>
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