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McCain can get free with this caselaw

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http://copyright-litigation.blogspot.com/2008/08/chinese-hacker-claims-innocence-under.html


posted by : Vikay, 27 August 2008 Complain about this comment
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"Just because his campaign people have used music without permission, how does that make John McCain a pirate?"

As a wannabe president of the USA, he should naturally be held to the highest possible moral standards, and as a possible future leader, and arguably most powerful-person-in-the-world, should be in full control of his own campaign. So yeah it does make him a pirate.

Having just been on holiday to Arizona for 2 weeks, I can't help but constantly lol at your "left wing bias" media. You've obviously never read balanced British broadsheets. I am not exaggerating when I say that sensationalist papers and news programs, even apparently balanced ones like CNN, make the daily mail look sedate and socialist.

"Big big double standard." Sorry, what? Do you think any media ever produced should automatically be available for anyone to use for any purpose? Regardless of the author's own personal beliefs? Because if you do, welcome to socialism! O that irony hurts doesn't it?

posted by : Minish Man, 20 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Far left? shorely some mistake

If Jackson Browne is "far left" for being anti-nuclear and for peace, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

posted by : Guillem, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
not quite

The song in question Was Not Used by McCain or the National Republican Party. It was used by an independent political action committee, a distinction lost on Mr. Browne as well.

posted by : robert, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Duh

The republicans have typically nominated "Daddy" candidates in an attempt to shroud themselves in the steady, authoritative mythos of the father. And just like the typical dad, it seems that John McCain is dispensing that universal pearl of daddy wisdom: "Do as I say, not as I do." And when we ask why? "Because, I'm the dad and you're not."

Did you really expect him to behave in any other way?

posted by : Raymond Cranfill, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
He's running behind

He says he's running on empty.

We're not sure where his cosmeticians
Half a mile from Tucson 
By the mournin light threw in
A Grateful Dead refrain

But it ain't got that Schwing
If it's vain on McCain
And should be foot-stompin
Judgment with a flogging cane

Shake a fist, Jackson

"I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind"

Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehn!
>pop<

posted by : Bud & Stella, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Better than a marxist

He'll still beat Obomba or whatever his name is.

posted by : I know everything, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Yet again...

... you struggle to be a political commentator.

Stick to what you know, and keep your Socialism over on your continent.

Oh, and if find you can't resist making comments about people plagiarizing, then be a mensch and report on the actions of BOTH candidates not just the opponent of your Messiah...

posted by : Bill, 18 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Anything to disparage the next president...

Just because his campaign people have used music without permission, how does that make John McCain a pirate? We all know that most of the time, John McCain does not call the shots for many of the campaign advertisements. If he knowingly knows that there is something wrong, then he will have it pulled immediately. The INQ is in the tank with MSNBC along with the far-left liberal media of the US for Obama ... oh wait, I am writing about the INQ ... never mind, everyone knows this to be the truth-machine of the UK ...

posted by : AKHandyman, 18 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Not sure if this is accurate

Musicians don't personally endorse every use of their song. Usually if you want to use a song, you get a license from the RIAA. Now most musicians are very very liberal in this country and don't like Republicans using their music at all. If McCain did not obtain a license from the RIAA then there is a problem. If he did, and some ninny musician is now complaining that he didn't get permission personally from him/her, that is a whole different story.

You may notice that people running as Democrat's never have this problem. Big big double standard. Heck these guys are willing to whore out their songs to anything and anyone, as long as they are not a conservative politician.

posted by : Mark, 18 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Typical

The Republican Party's motto should be " Do what I say, not what I do "

posted by : LeadSled, 18 August 2008 Complain about this comment

US presidential candidate is a pirate

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