Copyright question

[Julie in the rv mirror]

Originally Posted by allrevvedup

If it makes money it'll be flogged to anyone who wants to pay for it. Hence why i'm not sure artist integrity really exists, more just that everyone has a price (and there's always a debt/bill to pay somewhere)

It does. Back in the '80's, Chrysler offered Bruce Springsteen several million dollars (I don't know the exact figure) to use Born in the USA in a commercial. He turned it down. Last year, after he took a bunch of flack from fans when he agreed to sell a Greatest Hits CD as a Wal-Mart exclusive, he acknowledged that it was a mistake.

I was kind of disappointed to hear Anything for Love used in that steak sauce commercial.

[Julie in the rv mirror]

Sorry, I meant to include this in my last post and I forgot-

Here is a good article about music copyrights/royalties:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties.htm

[daveake]

Originally Posted by allrevvedup

If it makes money it'll be flogged to anyone who wants to pay for it. Hence why i'm not sure artist integrity really exists, more justthat everyone has a price (and there's always a debt/bill to pay somewhere)

Indeed ...

John Carter Cash, the son of the late Johnny, said Thursday that the estate had agreed to allow the country legend’s likeness and creative property to be used in the branding and marketing of a new ass cream from Blairex Laboratories, the makers of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste. While that topical ointment is for use on the asses of infants and children, the new product will be marketed more for adults with ass discomfort and anal itching.

“Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire Ass Cream” will begin production in June with expected shipment to Fred’s Dollar Stores across America by the ass-itchingly hot month of August. “This is an exciting new application for the Johnny Cash name and we feel that it will reach an area that hasn’t been reached before” smiled John Carter.

The television advertising campaign will include actual footage of Johnny and June performing “Ring of Fire” in a humorous spot where Johnny leaves the stage suddenly to use the product because his ass hurts. Computer animation will manipulate Johnny’s mouth to say “Woo-wee! That’s good ass cream!”

Some country music historians and Cash fans have criticized the move harshly, calling it gross commercialism and flagrant mismanagement of Cash’s image and legacy. For his part, John Carter sees it as a strategic move to expand his late father’s influence: “Not everybody’s into country music, but everybody’s ass gets itchy or painful, so this will allow people in all walks of life to experience the Man in Black.”

News of “Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire Ass Cream” follows last month’s release of an album of hip-hop remixes of Cash songs, which was also said by many to be an “ass” product.