Bwaaahahahahahahahaa... Jackson Browne Defeats John McCain

[SoCalDem]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/07/john_mccain_really_running_on.html?hpid=news-col-blog
Singer Jackson Browne has won his copyright battle against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), getting an apology and an undisclosed sum of money from the 2008 presidential nominee for a pro-McCain Web video that appropriated the artist's hit song "Running On Empty." McCain, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party jointly settled the lawsuit and issued a statement Tuesday saying:

"We apologize that a portion of the Jackson Browne song 'Running On Empty' was used without permission. Although Senator McCain had no knowledge of, or involvement in, the creation or distribution of the Web campaign video, Senator McCain does not support or condone any actions taken by anyone involved in his 2008 presidential election campaign that were inconsistent with artists' rights or the various legal protections afforded to intellectual property." McCain, the RNC and the Ohio GOP Party also pledged to get artists' permission in the future before using their work.

Browne, an outspoken liberal, insists his lawsuit was "not a partisan effort. This case was about artists' rights and trying to ensure that our intellectual property rights are respected."

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"What this case means is, just because you're running for office doesn't give you the right to use copyrighted works without license or permission," Iser, a partner with the Los Angeles (Santa Monica)-based firm known as KWIKA, said by telephone. That would suggest that Don Henley of the Eagles, who is suing a Republican Senate candidate, stands to win his case. The defendant, Charles DeVore, is accused of misusing Henley's songs "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" without authorization to attack Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

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McCain has maintained that neither he nor his campaign had anything to do with the making of the video, which was intended as parody to lampoon Barack Obama for suggesting Americans should inflate their tires to save gas. Yet McCain still settled -- final proof, more than six months after the election, that the "Running On Empty" gag backfired.

[PretzelWarrior]

1. "Runnin on Empty". out of his entire song catalogue..any more ironic?

jayzus. I am guessing the songs that didn't make the cut were:

Failure is the Best Revenge by The Vandals

American Idiot by Green Day

Take This Job and Shove it by Johnny Paycheck

Loser by Beck

Creep by Radiohead

others???.............

[SpiralHawk]

2. Running on Empty = Republicon honesty, integrity, intelligence

As the Republicon Homelanders demonstrate repeatedly in their efforts to make America FAIL.

[PretzelWarrior]

3. I thought they should be called "Luddites" or "Flat Earthers" or knuckle draggers

the vast majority of the REMAINING Republican party are a bunch of screw balls.

[yorgatron]

4. Bruce Springsteen should sue the GOP and the estate of Ronnie Raygun,

for using "Born in the U.S.A." in 1984.

[Berry Cool]

5. He can't sue, because they never used it.

This has to be one of the great political myths. It's not true, however.

In one of his stump speeches in '84, Reagan said "America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside our hearts. It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen." Obviously, he said this because "Born in the U.S.A." was so popular at the time and he didn't really "get" what the song was about, nor did his handlers. His speechwriters got the whole idea of mentioning Springsteen in a speech from Michael Deaver, who got it from George F. Will, who had just attended a Springsteen concert and completely misunderstood the meaning of the song and misinterpreted it to suit his own political viewpoint.

Reagan never actually used the song at any of his campaign stops, however (despite the unattributed claims of many people who have posted that "fact" to the Internet simply because they misremember it as having actually happened).

[Strelnikov_]

6. Browne 1 - The Pretender 0 n/t