We're Going To Rock Down To.................... Electric Avenue
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1488zz8jnzo
Link to videoFormer 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. -
Personally, I think as long as royalties are paid, there is no such thing as permission
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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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.
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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.
@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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@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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@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.
@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.
