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On January 17th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

Yes. And I agree. That is not what I have been pointing out. I’ve been pointing out this practice of getting “permission” from an artist. Its goofy. Sorry but its more of this artist are “special” crap.

Are you claiming that no artist had any management rights of any copyright McCain used during his campaign?

On January 17th, 2010 at 12:06 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

It doesn’t make sense or you don’t agree with it?

It doesn’t make any sense – probably because it’s wrong.

I think you’re underestimating Obama’s pull.

Then why is he campaigning for Coakley?

Corzine actually ran a fantastic campaign and given how enormously unpopular he was for much of his term, he had a very, very good loss.

Raising taxes with rising unemployment is a great way to get knocked out of office.

and I also am unsure as to where you got the idea that Obama was attempting to sway the Olympics council members (he was clearly there to energize the Chicago contingent).

You really expect us to believe that he did zero lobbying over there? Obama is alobbying mogul to the rest of the world, mostly in terms of apologizing like someone suffering from white guilt.

Your blind hatred for Obama is bizarre and dishonest.

Of course, as a liberal, any criticism of Obama you hear makes the skeptic a hater or a racist. But I’d rather have someone who hates government (or a particular office thereof) than someone who follows it blindly.

BTW, how’s that “hope and change” working out for you?

John Mellencamp sued McCain and the GOP for this and the campaign was forced to pull a video posted to youtube, which used Frankie Valli songs without any permission.

McCain = past/history and he made the correction/paid up/or whatever.
Coakley = present. The extent to which this issue is resolved will be interesting.

And the bottom line is that the McCain campaign paid the copyright holder a fee that granted them permission to play Barracuda at their events, and I think they did the same with the others.

There is a difference between a licensing fee for use in live performance (like a baseball game or campaign rally) and for use in an advertisement (like the Coakley situation). McCain may have had the rights to use a particular song during a live performance, but they also had several instances of using a song without permission in campaign ads. John Mellencamp sued McCain and the GOP for this and the campaign was forced to pull a video posted to youtube, which used Frankie Valli songs without any permission.

I’m a musician, and have had to learn about what is involved in licensing of intellectual property, as well as what constitutes ‘fair use’.

And the bottom line is that the McCain campaign paid the copyright holder a fee that granted them permission to play Barracuda at their events, and I think they did the same with the others. Heart didn’t hold the copyright to the song anymore, so the band’s objection is moot – and they did get royalties from the licensing fee that the McCain campaign paid out.

Coakley got no such permission from UPS to use their image in campaign ads, so it’s an entirely different issue.

That’s good.

As quoted in the Hot Air headlines, Steve Kornacki says that Martha Coakley’s internal poll for Friday night showed Republican Scott Brown leading by two points, 47 to 45 percent. He goes on to say in an update:

As a friend points out, the Friday night numbers probably don’t take into account Coakley’s latest well-publicized gaffe, when she seemed to forget that Curt Schilling — who at one point flirted with running in this race — had played for the Red Sox. It may be silly that baseball IQ could have anything to do with a Senate candidate’s election prospects, but that’s where we are.

What is silly is Kornacki’s thinking this is about “baseball IQ”.

Who brought up the topic of baseball? Coakley did. And why did she do so? In a condescending attempt to get Red Sox fans to ignore Rudy Giuliani because he is “a Yankees fan”. That ALONE speaks volumes. She thinks voters are stupid enough to ignore her “terrorists have all left” remark, and ignore Rudy’s support of Brown on national security issues, simply because Rudy is “a Yankees fan”.

Interviewer Dan Rea was right on to immediately challenge that stupid dismal of Rudy by bringing up the fact that Curt Schilling also is supporting Brown.

And here’s where Martha showed her ignorance. I doubt that she knows any more about the Yankees than the Red Sox. She is an elitest who’s probably never watched a MLB game in person. She likely said what she said about Rudy because HER HANDLERS TOLD HER TO DO SO.

So both Coakley and those advising her think baseball fans are stupid and would ignore Rudy just because he’s a Yankees fan.

Martha, a member of the “educated class”, then extrapolated that dismissal to anyone else who opposed her. They all must be just “another Yankees fan”.

She deserves to be hammered for her arrogance.

This isn’t about “baseball IQ”. It’s about elitism and arrogance. It’s not the voters or interviewer who brought up baseball, it was Coakley. And not only did she strike out, she managed to somehow get hit by her own pitch!