At 01:36 PM 3/24/00 -0000, you wrote:
>Maybe it's down to who you get checking your stuff, or perhaps the only
listen to brief selections from
>each submission...
I'm pretty sure it is. I've had one of my songs veto'd by mp3.com in the
past. There were two songs: "theme from 'My Little Pony'"-- a gabber-ish
songs that samples the original TV series' theme song-- and "theme from 'My
Little Pony' (Procyon Lotor mix)"-- which is, naturally, a remix of my
track, a noise remix to be specific, and doesn't feature any samples from
the TV theme. Which song was rejected? The remix! On the grounds that the
title was copyright infringement. (However, it only took a little bit of
truth bending to get them to accept the song. I told them "My Little Pony"
was a friend's student film. Which might as well be true now, since I grew
tired of the original TV theme mix and stripped the samples.)
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"We're afraid of getting sued because it mentions a product name. We can't print the word NyQuil on the record, so we had to call the song something else besides "NyQuil Driver". But we can say it in the song all we want, we're just not allowed to [print it on the record]. We didn't want to get sued. . . I don't even know why NyQuil would be upset. Is it that we are suggesting that there is something wrong with their product? Or, is it that we would be stealing their customers away by getting them to buy records instead of cold medicine?" -John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, about the song 'AKA Driver'