>Fair use??? lol
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>I'm no familiar at all with U.S. Copyright laws. There are some words or expression that to me lost all their meanings. For example those companies selling their crap on TV. "You can get our crap with 5 easy payments.". Who decides that those payments were easy?
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>A big company working on something and advertising "Coming soon". What is soon exactly?
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>So I would put "Fair use" in that category of expressions that lost their meanings. What is fair?
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>A genious lawyer probably realized that their would be tons of cases based on that expression.
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>If you say You can't use it more than 5 times it's clear. If you say instead you can do a fair use of it then katching $$$$ lawyers will get good cases for years to come.
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>So what if Fleetwood Mac decided to go with Clinton? It's their music and they can do what they want with it.
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>Music is not free, unless the creator decides to give it to you.

Not quite so simple. The author of a piece of music can control first use - after that anyone can record a version of it but must pay royalties....

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>"That's just the way it is, some people never change" song by Bruce Hornsby ;-)
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>>>Hi Kevin,
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>>>Let's start with one principle. Music is not free. Radio stations plays music and the artist get royalties. Spotify lets you listen to whatever artists you like and those artists gets royalties.
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>>>Even if some of those artists are gazillionaire they still get their royalties.
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>>>Are politicians so special they think they should get it for free.
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>>Denis, you might want to take a look at the context of "fair use" within U.S. Copyright laws.
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>>Question - did Fleetwood Mac (or their record label) complain when Clinton used the song, "Don't Stop thinking about tomorrow?"
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>>History shows that artists "protest too much" FAR MORE when their music is used by conservatives. Which means artists don't care about copyright laws, anywhere near as much as they care about the perception of false endorsement by political conservatives. That's what this is about. And considering how much exposure artists get, I think their reactions are incredibly immature.
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>>If they cared about copyright laws, they'd go after the tons of copyright violations that occur on sites like YouTube, Google etc.