OFF: Radio Birdman, in car commercials appear

Neil Shilladay neil.shilladay at MICROLISE.COM
Thu Feb 27 11:35:10 EST 2003


theo writes (regarding songs used in commercials)
It's only up to the 'owner' of the song.  Do you think Fogerty gave his
permission to
use his tunes in ads when he won't get anything for it?  Just twisting the
knife again!
But yes, the owner has to give permission, otherwise the song can't be
used...


IIRC Lemmy fell foul of this when 'Ace of Spades' was used in a commercial
here in England for Pot Noodles (!). I got the impression Lemmy couldn't
stop it, but I may be wrong.

Cheers
Neil.



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