cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21840859
White Stripes singer angered after Trump aide shares social media post using clip of band’s hit Seven Nation Army
Don’t let Nazis use your music to spread their message of hate!
I don’t get why any right holder would not sue the moment they use their thing. talk about negatively effecting the ip.
These same record companies always go after poor people downloading their music, too.
Right?
Unless it’s a cause you’d donate to, and by extension donate your music to, get it back!
Don’t threaten, just do it.
It sounds like it’s a work in progress. It’s just faster to post about it.
On Instagram White wrote: “Don’t even think about using my music you fascists. Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.) Have a great day at work today Margo Martin.’
I think they should instead say something like, “The tRump campaign is so inept, so disorganized, that they don’t even know that they need to get permission first to use certain songs at their rallies. Sad.”
You know it doesn’t seem like all that long ago that people were being sued or threatened for playing music in shops or in the back office of a hotel and stuff like that. It might have been urban legend at the time when the music industry was over reacting to Napster, KaZaA, Limewire, Bearshare, etc, etc. but it is true that those venues officially need a license for any music they play in public. So how come a nationwide advertising campaign can make use of music, without the permission of the artist, and not be sued into oblivion by the RIAA? Or does the artist not own the copyright to their own work? Or does the RIAA sympathise more with gentle, kind Billionaires than nasty greedy non billionaires??
The RIAA is a tool for filfthy rich assholes, not the working class
The Electronic Music scene has the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM), because the RIAA are insane about public performance rules and would completely kneecap the club scene if they were in charge. If DJs can’t perform the shit in their collection without explicit rights for every track, the scene falls apart.
Interestingly, Trump could likely get away with hiring DJs and playing club anthems at his rallies, but that would probably alienate his base pretty severely.
In all likelihood they license it through a licensing library and the original rights holder isn’t in the loop.
He’s basically decided to stop getting the rights to music he plays at his campaigns. Looking cool is worth the lawyers fees for him.
He’s got enough money to not care about the law. He’s a billionaire and he has a loyal group of followers who keep giving a rich guy more money.
A friend of mine made one of White’s iconic guitars. That friend offered to make a copy of that iconic guitar for me. That friend was threatened with a lawsuit from White if that guitar were copied. I’m not sure that case would have held up in court given that the guitar in question is a copy of a copy, but…
How did Jack White find out your friend offered to make you a copy of his guitar?
How did he even know about it? Did he post on Instagram that he was making Jack White’s guitar for a friend?
Take it or leave it. I’m omitting a lot.
Which guitar in particular are you talking about?
You know I want to dislike this guy because I thought the white stripes were REALLY overrated…but then he absolutely goes nuts helping vinyl explode and now this…I can’t like the guy but goddamn he is absolutely the least worst. Go Jack
This hits.
Don’t threaten. Fucking do it.
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Remember everyone, only notyourworld gets to decide what music is!
Aw man, and here I thought only my world mattered. Sucks
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