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Posts Tagged ‘annals of intellectual property law’

ANNALS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

McCain Settles With 70s Musician Over Use Of Long-Forgotten Song In Obscure Web Ad

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Oh, Walnuts.Last year, poor ol’ Johnny Walnuts spent 75 percent of his campaign either changing Sarah Palin’s runny diapers or apologizing to once-famous musicians for using their songs in campaign commercials that nobody watched. One of those musicians was Jackson Browne, who, like John Mellencamp, could have had a brilliant career as a composer of truck commercial jingles, but instead decided to waste his talents on being a liberal. MORE »