August 16, 2008
Ny Times
Jackson Browne Sues Over McCain Ad
Compiled by BEN SISARIO

The singer-songwriter Jackson Browne has filed suit against Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, over what he says is the unauthorized use of his 1977 hit “Running on Empty” in a McCain campaign commercial shown in Ohio, Mr. Browne’s lawyer said Thursday. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, seeks unspecified damages as well as an injunction against the use of the song in the commercial, which criticizes Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for saying that Americans could conserve gasoline by keeping car tires at the proper pressure. A spokesman for Mr. McCain, Brian Rogers, said the commercial had been created independently by the Ohio Republican Party and had no connection to the national campaign.

“This campaign has never run any ad using any portion of Mr. Browne’s song,” Mr. Rogers said in a statement. “If the complaint names the McCain campaign, Mr. Browne and his lawyers have picked the wrong target.” The complaint also names the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party. Mr. Browne’s lawyer, Lawrence Y. Iser, said in an interview on Friday that after he sent a cease-and-desist letter last week, the Ohio party stopped broadcasting the ad and removed it from the Internet. Calls to the offices of the Ohio Republican Party were not returned on Friday. Mr. Iser said that he would not drop the suit.

Also Abba and John Mellencamp have complained about unauthorized use of their material for campaigns they don't support.

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I don't support what they think but they coming on my property through the airwaves.

When one sells one's product in the market, one rarely has a choice in who may purchase it.

“Running On Empty” pretty much summarizes the GOP on every level…

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Duhhh, were so stupid.
Please don't hurt us, were just trying to do good.
We know you are our intellectual masters in every way.
Have some pity on us poor stupid Democrats.

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RichC
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Unto thine own self be true.

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? What, is that some sort of asinine comment from the peanut gallery ?

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Or are you working on another "fruit cake comment"
One ring rules them all ??
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Fear the parasite !!
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The short version of " To thine own self be true "
Have Fun !
RichC


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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

CYRANO
Ay, poet, Sir! In proof of which, While we fence, presto! all extempore I will compose a ballade.


THE VISCOUNT
A ballade?


CYRANO
Belike you know not what a ballade is.


THE VISCOUNT
But. . .


CYRANO
[(reciting, as if repeating a lesson)]
Know then that the ballade should contain Three eight-versed couplets. . .


THE VISCOUNT
[(stamping)]
Oh!


CYRANO
[(still reciting)]
And an envoi Of four lines. . .


THE VISCOUNT
You. . .


CYRANO
I'll make one while we fight; And touch you at the final line.



-51-


THE VISCOUNT
No!


CYRANO
No?

[(declaiming)]
The duel in Hotel of Burgundy -- fought By De Bergerac and a good-for-naught!


THE VISCOUNT
What may that be, an if you please?


CYRANO
The title.

I'd hate to throw another Strummer story in but he was against using the song Rock the Casbah during Desert Storm, years later he re-recorded Minstrel Boy for the movie Blackhawk Down. Strummer fans were surprised that he recorded a song for a movie like Blackhawk Down but his response was it was about the story of the battle of Mogadishu which he thought was much different than Desert Storm.

Ain't it a ***** how receiving devices have no tuning controls?

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Ah, but one does have choice over who may or may not use one's intellectual property to their advantage. At least in America, anyway.

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There might be, maybe mind you, some things I don't understand about the world. Like paying for usage of copyrighted material on the radio. One example of this I've heard over the years has kept me wondering.

Bruce Hornsby has disavowed Sean Hannity thoroughly, that would be the Hannity who lovingly uses the piano interlude to Hornsby's "That's Just the Way It Is" for his radio show, or at least he did, for a long time.

I can only imagine that Hornsby gets well paid for Hannity's usage, ditto for the author of the music Limbaugh uses on his show, who, I understand, doesn't support Rush's POV.

If not, there's some punk **** a' goin' on.

What, righties don't understand the concept of intellectual property?

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Are you sure about that?

I mean, once the property is sold to the public can't you use it however you wish, just so the proper royalties (or whatever) are payed?

That was my question in the post following, #12. You might be right on that one. I wonder if Browne was paid royalties for the use of his melody?

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1984 300D, 138K