Re: collage (was:FNV-RIAA IS CRACKING DOWN)

["Thomas W¿hni" <hovard@online.no>]

>- Eddie Van Halen, when being shit on about "Right Now" being used in a 
>beer
>commercial or some such enterprise, responded that if he didn't liscense 
>the
>song, the beer company would just hire session musicians to record a 
>sound-
>alike version, pay the (pittance) royalty associated with covering the 
>song,
>and VH would get nothing, compared to what they got for the use of the 
>song.



Yep , "soundalikes" is a familiar term in the session world. Happens every 
day , I believe.
But couldn`t Van Halen deny them the right to cover his song? Andrew Loyd 
webber does it all the time. His tall , strong lawyers stopped a 
high-school performance of "Phantom of the Opera" here in Norway. The moms 
and dads were reputedly "not worried" because there was lots of stuff on 
TV that day.......:-)

Yours , Thomas