EMI vs The Fanatics
p2pnet.net News:- Big Four Organized Music cartel member EMI has again shown how low it can go with a petty attack against an Australian sporting fans group called The Fanatics.
The group’s Ashes songbook includes parodies of songs such as Daydream Believer with lines such as, “Cheer up Michael Vaughan, How bad must it be, To a be a poor pommie whinger, And you’re watching on TV?,” says ABCsport, going on:
The Ashes is international cricket’s oldest and most celebrated rivalry between England and Australia, dating back to 1882.
Now, “Aussie sport diehards the Fanatics will find out today whether they must pulp 100,000 copies of a song book they created to help lift Ricky Ponting and his men to victory in the Ashes,” says The Age.
EMI lawyers have met with Fanatics founder Warren Livingstone to, “thrash out copyright issues relating to six of the 15 songs printed in Six, Jugs & Rock n’ Roll”.
The Fanatics, one of Australia’s largest sport tour companies had planned to distribute 100,000 free copies to Oz cricket fans during the Ashes series, which kicks off in Brisbane tomorrow.
It, “put the songbook together in a bid to get Australian fans to outsing England’s Barmy Army during this summer’s Ashes series,” says ABCsports.
But it looks like The Fanatics are sorting things out with EMI.
“It appears that we’re going to get the green light, which I guess is a win for both common sense and Aussie cricket fans,” says Fanatics founder Warren Livingstone in The Daily Telegraph.
“Our good friends at EMI have intimated, in light of our desire to get behind the Aussie cricket team, that they’re going to cut us some slack.”
All that’s needed is EMI gaining approval from the various artists in question, a task Livingstone doesn’t think wil be too difficult, says the story, quoting him as saying:
“Our parody of Living Doll (by Cliff Richard) takes aim at British women but I don’t think this will bother Sir Cliff in the slightest. He doesn’t seem that keen on them himself.
“As for Robbie Williams, he’s a good times guy and would probably be right at home himself in the Fanatics Bay. Let’s hope he’s an angel and gives us clearance before tomorrow.”
“There’s talk of some high profile Brit entertainers being at the Gabba tomorrow and I’m sure they’d be tickled pink to hear some of Australia’s finest vocalists doing justice to their tunes.”
Also See:
ABCsport – EMI threatens legal action against Fanatics, November 18, 2006
The Age – Fanatics wait on umpire’s decision, November 22, 2006
The Daily Telegraph – Fanatics and EMI find harmony, November 22, 2006
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November 22nd, 2006 at 4:40 pm
I thought you didn’t need permission to do parody. a’la Weird Al and MAD magazine
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