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Cigar
09-07-2012, 11:33 AM
The American rock band R.E.M. on Thursday demanded that Fox News “cease and desist” using their song “Losing My Religion” during its coverage of the Democratic National Convention.

“R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’ was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night,” a statement on the R.E.M. HQ website said. “R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song.”

“We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage,” lead singer Michael Stipe said. “Our music does not belong there.”

And it’s not the first time the band’s frontman has taken on conservatives.

During a 2003 interview with NBC’s Katie Couric about the band’s song “Bad Day,” Stripe blasted conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Republican strategist Karl Rove and then-President George W. Bush.

“It’s a bad–it’s a day for Limbaugh, isn’t it?” he asked Couric. “It’s a bad day for Schwarzenegger. It’s a bad day for Bush. It’s a bad day for Rove. It’s a good day for me.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/07/r-e-m-orders-fox-news-to-stop-playing-losing-my-religion-during-dnc/

coolwalker
09-07-2012, 11:53 AM
If they pay the fee the song or any song may be used. it is in the public domain...ascap you know!

Mainecoons
09-07-2012, 12:05 PM
More censorship from the left. Whine on, lefties.

shaarona
09-07-2012, 12:07 PM
More censorship from the left. Whine on, lefties.


Its REM's music. Fox should use some conservative music.

Mainecoons
09-07-2012, 12:08 PM
They paid for it. If REM doesn't want to sell their music rights, that is their privilege. It isn't their privilege to take the money and then play lefty censorship games.

shaarona
09-07-2012, 12:11 PM
They paid for it. If REM doesn't want to sell their music rights, that is their privilege. It isn't their privilege to take the money and then play lefty censorship games.

Did Fox pay for it?

Cigar
09-07-2012, 12:13 PM
Its REM's music. Fox should use some conservative music.

No one can dance to Conservative Music, it's good for Elevators and Art Museums :)

shaarona
09-07-2012, 12:15 PM
No one can dance to Conservative Music, it's good for Elevators and Art Museums :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-UzXIQ5vw&feature=player_detailpage

Cigar
09-07-2012, 12:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DCopcNpzc60

JohnAdams
09-07-2012, 01:01 PM
Anyone else notice, that after boohooing about the evil FOX NEWS using the song without permission or liscence, these same leftists are now themselves posting in this forum what is in-fact rips from you-tube of what are, unlicensed rips of REM'S music.......

Yet again the standard which these hypocrites on the left set down for everyone else, obviously do not apply when it comes to these leftists themselves.

No,no,no,when it comes to these lefties themselves, why then ripping off the intellectual property of artists is just A-ok. :rolleyes:

Cigar
09-07-2012, 01:07 PM
Actually you can use YouTube, you just can't use it for profit.

Nice type though ... enjoy the music

BTW ... I did buy that DVD/CD package.

Mister D
09-07-2012, 01:09 PM
Straight outta Compton, bitches. :afro:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZqZschnrxM

Cigar
09-07-2012, 01:10 PM
Isn't one of them dead?

Mister D
09-07-2012, 01:11 PM
Isn't one of them dead?

Fo' real!? :shocked: Who got smoked?

Cigar
09-07-2012, 01:16 PM
Fo' real!? :shocked: Who got smoked?

Easy E, died of AIDS ... I think.

Mister D
09-07-2012, 01:17 PM
Easy E, died of AIDS ... I think.

dayum. Don't tell me he was packin'...drugs, right?

Cigar
09-07-2012, 01:21 PM
dayum. Don't tell me he was packin'...drugs, right?

On February 24, 1995, Eazy-E was admitted into Cedars Sinai Medical Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_Sinai_Medical_Center) in Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles) with what he believed to be asthma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma). Instead he was diagnosed with AIDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS). He announced his illness in a public statement on March 16. Eazy's sexual activity began at the age of twelve and resulted in not only a fatal disease, but seven children with six different women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazy-E

Mister D
09-07-2012, 01:22 PM
On February 24, 1995, Eazy-E was admitted into Cedars Sinai Medical Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_Sinai_Medical_Center) in Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles) with what he believed to be asthma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma). Instead he was diagnosed with AIDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS). He announced his illness in a public statement on March 16. Eazy's sexual activity began at the age of twelve and resulted in not only a fatal disease, but seven children with six different women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazy-E

Ah, I see. Too many hos! Catches up with ya...

Cigar
09-07-2012, 01:29 PM
Ah, I see. Too many hos! Catches up with ya...

Always has, always will.

That's I say, One is more than enough.

Mister D
09-07-2012, 01:29 PM
very true!