Norman Cook says no to the Conservative Party...
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...and then gets told, "tough".
Norman Cook has told the Conservative Party that he doesn't want them to use his 'Happiness' song, as Pizzaman, at their party conference in Bournemouth this week.
When he was approached by the party, the musician responded negatively, only to be informed later that a loop hole in the law permits the party to use the song regardless of the artist's opinion. Turns out that political parties are allowed to use any music they like, so long as they pay the PRS and the venue they're using has a PPL licence.
What does that mean? I dunno...
Labour have previously used a Cook composition: Fatboy Slim's 'Right Here, Right Now' was used in 2004. Writing on his official website, Cook said:
“At least the Conservatives had the decency to ask first unlike Labour. The Tories however remain my least favourite political party so an emphatic ‘no’ is the answer.”
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nah
he said political party.
Paul Reed Smith guitars?
PRS is the money the label/artist receives each time ne of their tracks receives radio/televisual play. PPL, is the broadcast licence, think I, so with this the darling Tories have a loophole in their hands.
he should have said yes
this conference has been great tv. autism jokes, booing any reference to europe, organisational cock ups, the return of beloved tax cuts, Norman Tebbit in general...I fucking love the tories.
Tories need to embrace the future
Kid606 as official conference DJ.
Right of Integrity
I'm sure Norman could enforce this as it gives the artist the right "to object to uses of a work which would bring dishonor or discredit on his or her reputation".
Lib Dem need to get in there
and take the initiative. Since they're all about picking up the floating voters, they should use music that will unite all of those fragments - Merzbow
Hang on...
Didn't the Kaiser Cheifs have a go at the BNP for using 'I Predict a Riot' as part of their advertising campaign, so they had to remove the song?
So surely he does have *some* right...? or maybe not...
mildly ironic
that the tories seem so hell bent on being down with the kids, yet have chosen a track that is over ten years old.
The Kids
barely vote. They want to look youthful and 'like you' to people who were the kids ten years ago...
not really
TV advertising is licensed differently to public performance. In effect playing music at the Tory party conference is just like playing music (e.g. sticking the radio on) in a shop - you don't have to ask permission first.
this is correct
word.
depends
what their definition of "using the song" is I suppose, but I don't think David Cameron simply plans to bring his CD player in and stick some tunes on while they serve canapes.
na
Naa mate i heard that BNP had Sham 69 'Borstal Breakout' as their advertising campaign and also apparently "dancing queen" by ABBA, strange bunch eh.
I recon like Labour should come out to "Not a crime" by Gogol Bordello.
Tories could come out to "100"% by Sonic Youth.
Lib dems could come out to some ironic disco like Cuba by The Gibson Brothers.
BNP could come out to either some football chants or Fuck it up by Towers of London,
It'd be great
the tories...
...were the best thing that ever happened to this country.
i refuse to become angry at a party which would, given the chance, bring back the death penalty.
NAIL 'EM UP, CAMMY M'BOY! NAIL 'EM UP!
at least with the tories what you see is what you get - a better party for a better england, amen.
HMMMM
I do this for a living…in the states but it is very similar. Greyhounds is correct however, in order to broadcast a public performance of a song and that song is copied (non-broadcast - like radio) then you have to obtain a master use license and a mechanical license. I do not see how this is legal.
PRS/PPL
These licence are required by law under the copyright desins and patents act 1988, if any venue/business uses copyright music. If the tories wished to record the norman cook song then he would be able to stop them using it, but the PRS lice allows the venue to play whatever music they like.
www.prs.co.uk for more info
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