Heart & their outrage over the use of "Barracuda" song

[texasmom]

So they're furious that the RNC played Barracuda.

What's the difference in anyone using a photo image (along with appropriate copyright information) and using a song?

[Hap]

Furious, eh?  I'm desolated. 

I'm with you TM (implicitly).  Folks' capacity for fury is malformed.

[Mojava]

 I don't believe there are any legalities involved, more a matter of courtesy.  As long as you don't try to package and sell the song or photo, or use it to promote the sale of an item then you can use it. Big old gray line to use it during a convention, but I don't believe it is illegal.

I'm desolated

huh?

[Gunthr]

wow.  Such angry fury.  I'm visuallizing them high-fiving for the lucky opportunity to get some ink and hang on to relevancy in this ever-changing world.

[Donzo]

See below.

[Donzo]

It seems that Heart asked them not to use it....I take this to mean that as a courtesy they asked them and the RNC ignored that request.

This implies that, legally, no permission was needed.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/heart-responds.html

[texasmom]

Awe, that's too bad. If they did ask & were asked not to use it, they shouldn't have used it [even if it was the perfect song for the moment].

[rpm]

Did'nt the same thing happen with Bruce Springsteen and Reagan over "Born in the USA"?
(Springsteen won that one, BTW)

[DiabloTX]

And George Bush and Bobby McFerrin.  But who gives a crap anyway, if that's all Heart has to beeotch about.

[rpm]

Diablo, would you mind if I used the Chog to paste a bunch of "I heart OBAMA!" stickers and drive around town? I mean, it's only a car, right?

You get the point, right?

[CAP1]

So they're furious that the RNC played Barracuda.

What's the difference in anyone using a photo image (along with appropriate copyright information) and using a song?

BUT YET, DOESN'T the government go after people for downloading songs from free services like limewire?

[DiabloTX]

Diablo, would you mind if I used the Chog to paste a bunch of "I heart OBAMA!" stickers and drive around town? I mean, it's only a car, right?

You get the point, right?

If it made me more money and made my car worth a helluva lot more money you bet Obama could use it.  Doesn't mean I endorse him though.  You get that point, right?

[DiabloTX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bt_-R5LInU&feature=related

BTW, the song for the younger peeps on the board.  One of the many crown jewel songs of the 70's.  Man, that guitar TONE!  Thick as a steak!

[Hornet33]

Well as long as the guy running the sound board or whoever coordinated the entire thing bought the copy of the song, it's all legal. No different than a DJ who is playing the song in a club.

[GtoRA2]

Isnt heart the band where the fat chick ate the rest of the band when they got stranded in the mounains?