We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 00:55 last edited by
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1488zz8jnzo
Former US President Donald Trump has been found liable to pay damages to London singer and songwriter Eddy Grant for using his song Electric Avenue without permission.
It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election in the US courts, over his 2020 campaign video that used a 40-second clip of the song.
The video was viewed 13.7 million times before Twitter, now known as X, took it down. -
wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:02 last edited by
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:08 last edited by
I think that there should be permission. An artist (singer, songwriter, arthur, artist, etc.) should have some control over their material.
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I think that there should be permission. An artist (singer, songwriter, arthur, artist, etc.) should have some control over their material.
wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:13 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
An artist (singer, songwriter, arthur, artist, etc.) should have some control over their material.
Agreed.
But when the artist has signed over rights to another party, that desire for control is irrelevant. Successful artists make millions of dollars by selling their "catalogs" to third parties.
(I haven't read the story, by the way - because it's almost my bedtime and I'm watching the Emmys)
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:42 last edited by
Give Eddy a break. He’s a one hit wonder and likely needs the money. Badly.
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 01:55 last edited by Jolly
Caribbean Queen.
Oops. Wrong artist...That was Billy Ocean...
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 02:06 last edited by
@Mik said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
Give Eddy a break. He’s a one hit wonder
Not so. He had two UK number ones, and had a million seller with an earlier band.
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 02:47 last edited by
UK number ones don’t count.
But I do like ElectricAvenue. Good song.
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wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 10:48 last edited by
@Jolly said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
Then set the royalties to $1T. It would be how permission is implemented.
Unless you’re thinking the government would set royalties.
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@Jolly said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
Then set the royalties to $1T. It would be how permission is implemented.
Unless you’re thinking the government would set royalties.
wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 11:30 last edited by@jon-nyc said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
@Jolly said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
Then set the royalties to $1T. It would be how permission is implemented.
Unless you’re thinking the government would set royalties.
The royalties are usually set by who owns the catalog. I'm no music attorney, but I suspect older songs like we're talking about shouldn't be that expensive.
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@jon-nyc said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
@Jolly said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
Then set the royalties to $1T. It would be how permission is implemented.
Unless you’re thinking the government would set royalties.
The royalties are usually set by who owns the catalog. I'm no music attorney, but I suspect older songs like we're talking about shouldn't be that expensive.
wrote on 16 Sept 2024, 12:12 last edited by@Jolly said in We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue:
The royalties are usually set by who owns the catalog.
That's right. Didn't Michael Jackson own the Beatles' catalog for a while?