Hands Off Our Music
Always consider the future will have on your work. Once something is released and registered with a performing rights agency, and the venue playing it has paid the blanket license fee, is there any way to effectively stop someone from using a song in a particular context?
The lowest road on this issue is when the song itself, an innocent bystander gets bludgeoned in the process. What to do? A good answer would be to do a riposte in another song, or keep good notes about what your work is about. So if someone wants to appropriate or otherwise use a song, based simply as title-as-slogan, you're armed to defend it.
But rock music was always ambiguous and cryptic at the lyric level; It's a part of the creative process to keep the lyric vague. It should always be about the visceral power of the music, not the literal interpretation. So apparently both the writing of music, and its use decades later is somewhat of a risk.
5 Reasons Trump Shouldn't Use a Queen Song in His Campaign
The lowest road on this issue is when the song itself, an innocent bystander gets bludgeoned in the process. What to do? A good answer would be to do a riposte in another song, or keep good notes about what your work is about. So if someone wants to appropriate or otherwise use a song, based simply as title-as-slogan, you're armed to defend it.
But rock music was always ambiguous and cryptic at the lyric level; It's a part of the creative process to keep the lyric vague. It should always be about the visceral power of the music, not the literal interpretation. So apparently both the writing of music, and its use decades later is somewhat of a risk.
5 Reasons Trump Shouldn't Use a Queen Song in His Campaign
