Reply #35: Not necessarily

[Susang]

If it was from their live Superbowl performance of Sunday, Bloody Sunday from a few years back, the NFL most likely owns the broadcast rights to that particular version of the song and would be able to do whatever they want with it, as long as they pay the publishing rights.

These live performance agreements are a little trickier than they appear. My guess is that the network and the NFL were given the right to use their performance for promotion in the original contract. I would guess that U2 would never in a million years expect them to use a song like Sunday, Bloody Sunday in that manner.

Of course, I could be wrong. But my instinct says I'm not. ;-)