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This morning Rand Paul announced that he was running for president. There was a crowded auditorium and they were going wild and then he strode on up to the podium and music was blaring and it was all going great and he gave a speech and the crowd ate it up and they cheered his name and then he finished and they clapped and cheered and the campaign uploaded the video of the speech to YouTube so that the world could clap and cheer and...YouTube bots automatically pulled the video for unlicensed use of copyrighted material.
Womp womp.
Warner Music Group, the official owner of John Rich's "Shutting Detroit Down," a song about how much it sucks that rich corporations own things, has now shut Rand down.
full: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/04/rand-pauls-announcement-video-pulled-over-copyright-issues
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)sweet!
procon
(15,805 posts)Don't these guys ever learn? How many times have we heard some Republican blabbering on about constitutional this and that, and lauding law & order whilst his campaign blithely swipes copyrighted music, texts, video clips and photos without the least remorse for ripping off the authors.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)TlalocW
(15,389 posts)Rand has been moving away from his Libertarian ways to be a more palpable candidate or the king-makers and major donors in the GOP, and on his presidential website you can buy... Flip-flops.
TlalocW
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Over music.
It literally happens EVERY time.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Hekate
(90,787 posts)Moron.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Shocked that it wasn't due to plagiarism.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023947904
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)This is not a new thing for him.
malaise
(269,157 posts)the liberty to steal anyone's work with impunity. He is a lazy, sloppy, racist ReTHUG scumbag.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)find some music to steal from artists who would be happy to oblige.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)straight on that.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I love how Repugs chose songs they apparently just know the title of.... but not the content.
Like "Fortunate Son" or "Losing my Religion"
They never get past the title. They haven't a clue what the song's lyrics actually say.
THIS should give one a clue as to how they govern. (if that's what you can call it)
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Although Springsteen perhaps should've reconsidered:
"Born down in a dead man's town" seemed to predict what future generations could expect under trickle-down economics.
FSogol
(45,525 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,933 posts)Even my dear atheist friends would say "there is a God" about this outcome.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He tried to co-op someone else's music in a lame attempt to gain popularity on the internet!!
The internet!
Think about it.
Where contrails and UFOs are proven to exist!
Yes, they have been!
You didn't know that?
Well, that's because you're not going to their website!!!
So, there!!
Initech
(100,100 posts)Is watching musicians telling republican candidates to go fuck themselves. And this is just the beginning. Who wants some butter?
Brett Fitz
(52 posts)Surely not!
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)so often that it should be called paulgerizing.
Initech
(100,100 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)What a worthless, confused twit.
TeamPooka
(24,253 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)the RW trolls on that article trying to deflect from the topic of Plagiarist in Chief Rand Paul to Hillary. Their trolling didn't use to be this bad.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)you don't think rules and regulations apply to you. Libertarian stumbling block. We need rules and regulations and most people recognze the function they serve.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)progressoid
(49,998 posts)Photos Of People Endorsing Rand Paul Are From German-Based Stock Photographer
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul launched his presidential campaign Tuesday complete with a page to endorse the new presidential candidate.
The endorsements are then presented on a map of the United States.
The people on the endorsement map, however, appear to be stock images from a Italian photographer Andrea Piacquadio who goes by the name Olly or Ollyy on stock image sites,and according to his Shutterstock page, is based in Germany.