On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Can they do this kind of censorship?
Hey, you can play whatever music, using whatever part of the song
you want. Radio shows use "bumper music" that's usually an
instrumental passage of something that has words. (And if you
listened to all the words, the song in its entirety turns out to be
singularly inappropriate for some shows!) The appropriate parties
receiving the appropriate royalties, that's all anyone cares about
in terms of what's legal and what's not.
You may recall that Microsoft used the Stone's song "Start Me Up" to
promote the launch of Windows '95... At Apple, where I worked at the
time, some wondered what would have happened if they used the whole
song: "You make a dead man WHAT???"
It's plain, old capitalism: they paid for it, they get to use
whatever parts of it they want (and not what they don't). They
probably chose it because it makes them seem "edgy" and "real". This
kind of co-opting of street culture by a huge corporation is just as
jarring as the Simpsons on Al Jazeera.
Dave
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