Copyright: The Mark of McCain
Shortly after I started this blog in 2005 I reported on a spat between Angela Merkel and the Rolling Stones over her use of their classic Angie as their campaign anthem (see "Stoned! The Difference between Copyright and Rights in Performances" 23 Aug 2005). It now looks as if presidential hopeful John McCain is in similar lumber with Jackson Browne over "Running on Empty" though he is applying to strike out the claim (see Ben Shefner's "Copyrights & Campaigns " 24 Jan 2009). Ben, who advised McCain, links through to sites from which you can actually read what we would probably call "skellies" - that is, if you can bear to trawl through 53 pages of argument on behalf of McCain, 25 for Browne and 14 of McCain's reply. Much more entertaining are the voces populi on the TMZ site to which Ben links. A lady called Melissa writes: "Glad he didn't win the Presidency but here's hoping he wins this one. I hate whiny washed ...