#2351 - 08/07/01 07:45 AM
This oughta give y'all a snicker or two...
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Tedster
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Reprinted from Dave Gross' "Punmaster's Music Wire"...
RIAA Demands End to Unauthorized Humming, Whistling
Washington, DC. -- After successfully stopping music-sharing services
on the Internet, forcing radio stations to get offline with strictive
broadcast rulings, the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) today asked a federal judge to stop people from humming or
whistling copyrighted songs in public. The RIAA also asked for $300
million in damages from the estimated 22 million drunken men who
think banging out the opening drum beat to "Wipeout" is a good way to
impress women in bars.
"Anyone who publicly hums or whistles is disseminating
copyright-protected music and thereby infringing on our artists'
rights," said RIAA spokesman Janet Fogerty. "Also, we don't like it
when the wind blows. It sounds too much like the beginning to Elton
John's 'Funeral for a Friend.'"
Free speech advocates were outraged over the RIAA's action, claiming
that the song "Whistle While You Work," owned by the Disney
Corporation, gives the implicit right to people to whistle while
working, which could include a myriad of activities.
A survey of single women, however, generally applauded. "Most of the
guys I know can't drum Wipeout when they're sober, let alone drunk,"
said Helen Kurtz, a 22-year-old from Manhattan. "Send 'em to jail, I
say."
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#2353 - 08/07/01 12:05 PM
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I'm pretty sure that any cover you do live could be collected on by the author as well. We actually got an ok from the Beatfarmers alumni, and Paul Kamanski who wrote some of their songs about doing their songs live. We have recorded one or two as well, and they got their check. I imagine that artists would have a difficult time tracking down all the bands covering their songs live. It's a bullshit rule, but this is America......where the rule is "I got mine.....go get yours".
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#2354 - 08/07/01 01:17 PM
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there's a gun sale at the church!
-d. gauss
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#2355 - 08/07/01 02:58 PM
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Originally posted by d gauss:
there's a gun sale at the church!
-d. gauss
HEY....and you can get there...in a BLUE CHEVROLET!!!!!!!
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