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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood asks for music to be removed from Melania movie over copyright dispute | The Independent https://share.google/mzPtYElwRSS8jEWTI
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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood asks for music to be removed from Melania movie over copyright dispute | The Independent https://share.google/mzPtYElwRSS8jEWTI
Grimlinnan
Of course she stole it. Pedophile girl has always been a criminal.
RaySkye
OR, he could sue her and take the whole $15 it made at the box office.
Schlorrp
He should sue for 10 billion dollars, isn’t that how it’s done these days?
LaffertyDanie1
They didn't get the rights for a theater release film? That's just fucking bush league
WillemHellfire
I'm sorry. I can't read this without thinking about Beavis and Butthead 😂
Relictivity
Jail to the thief
villlllle
Heh, I got that.
TerminalInterface
do like YouTube, give him all the money.
MagnumRadhard
Shame, I'll never find out what song it is....
sundaymondayhippyday
Barbara Rose I read the article-
and Groups of #Rapeublican women have been going to see it - gross the director literally is on Epstein island sleazing with children! https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlYm43d3d2YnJwbDh2Zmxkb3Yxa3VnYTJrY2gzazJ2NHk1dGYyY2NocSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/4baoNZ5Qo8dX2/giphy.mp4
lovingspace
I hope he sues them for $70M.
Swedishbouldering
I think they should remove all music and just have kid rock write the music
aka184mommie
I heard the music was the best part of the documentary
KamikazeGerbil101
SwissScars
They broke the Law....and will be fined and forced to remove the music? Deported you say...do I have any raise on deported.....?
MaybeIllDisappear
I'd feel sorry for the jury if this goes to trial, having to watch the documentary. But good news for Melania I guess, it would double the film's viewing.
TheFastpaws
That must be against the Geneva Convention.
Artoris
The jury watching the film will be 1/10th of the films total audience to date.
Superstzday
interesting how the morals come out when it's about their money, but not when it's about a genocide.
very interesting.
Feralkyn
Well, "Radiohead genocide" wasn't a Google search I thought I would be doing today, but here we are
5meoDMT
It's Jonny Greenwood. The Radiohead guitarist. What exactly do you want him to do??
Superstzday
not get into fights with BDS supporters? not equivocate about who is committing a genocide and who is being genocided?
inkasep1
Is he doing that?? I hadn’t read anything about this!
Superstzday
famously.
inkasep1
Huh. Just did a quick google search. I am very sad to learn this. I’ve always been fond of Radiohead.
AllRepublicansArePedophiles
Don't pity Jonny. He's a very outspoken Zionist and married to an Israeli occupier.
Feralkyn
I don't think anyone was gonna pity him for this, just say good, stick it to Trump. But it's really fuckin' weird he'd be both. Usually the Zionists are pro-Trump.
stronomer
One can both applaud this move regarding this bribery movie and criticize other political views he has at the same time. That is possible.
DesdemonaMoor
Unless there was a moral rights clause, Amazon bought the license and didn't tell artists what it would be used for.
QuatermainFT
No. Amazon paid him to compose the music for another movie and he has no copywrite on it, but claims the composers agreement says they have to ask him before any 3rd party use, which he claims this is. It might or might not be, depending on how its worded. It wasn't a straight up licensing of his copywritten music.
DesdemonaMoor
Interesting! Thanks for the inform. Now it's a question of who owns the copyright?
QuatermainFT
It's more, what the composers agreement says exactly If its use in Melania counts as 3rd party use, since its still being used within Amazon MGM, and/or if he does have the right to prevent its use in the first place, or have it pulled. He definitely doesn't own the copywrite.
plutonium
Copyright*
Rauca
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Slugsie
You mean they used copyright material without gaining consent? Say it isn't so.
Targe0
They likely bought a commercial license from the Record label.
He would have had no real say over their use, but would have likely gotten his share of the royalty payout for the use.
As most musicians don't own their music, the Record Label owns them, and pays the artist royalties for any revenue they generate from them.
5meoDMT
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awkungen42
The Trump administration isn't big on consent.
al3xinw0nderland0000
no, that's a Weezer song, not Radiohead. ;P
captainsweatypants
Sebastopol140
...again.
QuatermainFT
No, its a bit more complicated than that. He doesn't own the rights to the music that was used. Amazon MGM had him compose it for another movie. They didn't consult him on its use in Melania. His claim is the composers agreement he signed says they needed to consult him before any third party use, so they are in breech of the agreement.
circlebreaker
Knowing that major American studios have literal backup soundtracks kicking around which can be shoe-horned into any old movie only reinforces my resolve to not pay to see shit film in theatres. Some of them used to be composed by talents who split their time with Broadway, now the production notes for audio are just "put it anywhere that you can find room".
HaberdasherInGold
My favorite stories are the ones where the director puts in music they like as a placeholder, but then they and the editors get used to it and they have to try to get the studio to get the rights because now it "fits" too well.
Qaetan
Lol when have Republicans ever cared about consent.
SavageDrums
I'm intimately familiar with sync for movies and tv, and you CANNOT put a song in a movie w/o permission. Either the music supervisor on the "movie" (my bet) , or their/their publisher's sync rep fucked up huge here
Feralkyn
For anyone wondering, you can never use *any* artistic work that isn't yours, without a license. Sometimes that license comes with the work, ex. royalty-free stock artwork or free music that comes with a Creative Commons license and even then, you MUST check the terms (ex. if it requires attribution, cannot be altered, etc.).
ALL artistic works are automatically copyrighted to their creators as per international law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention). Fair Use is an exception,
Feralkyn
for example playing a sample of something in a documentary or creating parody. But you can't just ex. take an image off of Google or a screenshot of a game for a magazine article and say "but I found it on the internet/I took the picture myself" etc.
I say this because I have literally seen people do this: isolate models from game screenshots and upload them as stock art, or the "but it was on Google" thinking that means free. It is not!
HappyTimeHollis
"The musician, who composed the score for [Phantom Thread] starring Daniel Day-Lewis, alleged in a statement that the usage of the music was a breach of his composer agreement."
His attorneys claimed that while Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, the film’s distributor, Universal, “failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result, Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”
dynamojoe
I’m sure they got license. That’s just too big a mistake for Amazon to make. I hope they didn’t and Radiohead rakes them over the coals in court.
Hekatombe
"The musician, who composed the score for [Phantom Thread] starring Daniel Day-Lewis, alleged in a statement that the usage of the music was a breach of his composer agreement."
His attorneys claimed that while Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, the film’s distributor, Universal, “failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result, Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”
lostlittletimeonthis
Use the trump card, sue for billions
TimTheEnchanter01
They could go for a share of the movies profits, but we’ll….
khaoselement
We'll what?!
...sorry...couldn't help it.
Targe0
Things like licenses are done by the producers, and Amazon was the one who picked most of those for the project.
So yeah they would have done the legal stuff like buying licenses.