That's right, Prince will lose. You heard it here first. While it's true that no one owns the intellectual property rights to your mind except you, it's also a question of media rights. These websites are also media sites, because they report news. There's a similar incident going on in Australia, where the media has decided to boycott the first cricket Test between Australia and Sri Lanka because the cricket board, Cricket Australia, says it owns the copyright to all images and names and won't let them be published without payment. Can you imagine that? No sports news and photos in your newspaper, no footage of games on any news channel except the official live broadcast. Is this ever possible?

Here's the news report, extremely intersting and you can see the Prince parallels:

The global news agencies Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse will not report on the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka if a dispute over media accreditation is not resolved by Thursday. News Ltd, which publishes many of the major papers in Australia, was also involved in negotiations late today (Australian time) with Cricket Australia (CA) over the use of photographic and internet rights during the international season.

CA has tightened its regulations with the emergence of new media and its spokesman Peter Young said the organisation believed money made from commercial interests should be shared with the game. The Agence France-Presse chairman Pierre Louette said the group would "not pay to report news".


This is pure greed on CA's part, and pure greed on Prince's part. It's called maximising revenue streams, and not knowing when to stop.This is why we must oppose Prince, because we will not pay to report news and images. Prince can't stop the discussion forums any more than he can stop all blogs on the net. He will lose in court if need be, but He WILL lose.

We ain't sayin' we're better/ no better than u/ but if you want to play with us/u better learn the rules

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Funkyalien said:

Something simular to this went on here in Australia with the rugby...or perhaps it was football I must admitt my attention to that one was not held because Im not a sport person

If YouTube is owned by Google then they could boycott him too and make it impossible to find anything related to him on the web including 3121.com. That could really hurt his popularity even more.

I thought ... never mind!








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Two Live Crew won their parody lawsuit, so I guess if people labelled their Prince stuff as parodies, they could do anything they want.

Similar thing happened in the UK :
"A British court has rejected J.K. Rowling's lawsuit over the publication of a photo of her son that was taken on an Edinburgh street in November 2004.
The photo showed Rowling and her husband, Neil Murray, with their son, David, in a baby carriage. It appeared with a Sunday Express story on the Harry Potter author's approach to family life.

Rowling sued Express Newspapers and Big Pictures (UK), the agency that supplied the photo, complaining their right to privacy had been violated. The couple sought damages and a ban on further publication of the photo.
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"I have considerable sympathy for the claimant's parents and anyone else who wishes to shield their children from intrusive media attention," Patten (the judge) said.

But he said the law doesn't allow them to "carve out a press-free zone for their children concerning absolutely everything they choose to do."

Same thing with Prince - he is a public person - he can not stop publication of photographs taken during the exercise of his public function.

It's the law and that goes for Prince too. Only for those photographs that the original photographer has agreed to transfer his copyrights over to Prince (happens with work for hire) can Prince demand removal of. Again under his own discretion because he could also just take into consideration that the publication was not made to harm him and allow fair use to his fans. But obviously he doesn't care enough for us to allow that

Genre bending. Innovative. Controversial. And overall absolute genius, Prince can take anything .. I mean anything!!!! and express it with equal parts eloquence and shocking vulgarity.


Prince has never been one to shy away from controversy. Obviously, this whole lawsuit business lately is proof of that. Even if he's stopped cursing, and singing about having sex with virgins who are on the rag, he still knows how to stir stuff up.

But there was a time when his music was what ilicited all the responses. When it spoke for itself. No need for wearing assless pants, no need to make outlandish statements on magazines and other means--you could just get it from a record.

But one thing that always struck me was that Prince juxtaposed all manner of subjects, otherwise blush worthy to any other musician, effortlessly and with no sense of shame or embarassment whatsoever. It was like he pulled his nuts out of his silky lace panties and said, "Look bitches--check these hairy bad boys out. I may strut around in lace women's underwear, but I overflow with machismo!"...then boomerang his pumps at cha.

Anyways, sex, love, and spirituality -- these things are always pitted against each other in strange dualistic battles on his albums. but when viewed from afar, Prince is actually treating all these as one continuam. They are just different colors of his passion. He went from one end to the other with his songs.

Speaking of the other end, one of the things he seems to have an obsession with is the female hind quarters--perhaps even male, but that's always up for debate. But you always hear him talking about "ass" but never what he wants to do with it. It's as if he's not totally confortable with that region of the human body.
One could probably reckon that this was due to some repressed latent homosexual fantasy that was surfacing but being stiffled before it could shine in all its glory, but I propose that Prince was probably just revealing how hygenic and sometimes prissy he could be. The anus, after all, is more difficult to keep clean than vaginas and penises. Sure, Prince could easily say "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth", but you'd never catch him say "I sincerely want to slush the poop in your ass with my dick"--There's a line that even Prince wont cross, especially if it involves hygiene.

His obsession with hygiene is apparent in his interview with Oprah Winfrey. When she asked him if he always dressed nice, he replied, "On a normal day I'm clean". Now obviously, he's being hip with lingo here, cause being "clean" also means to look sharp, but let's not kid ourselves here--Prince loves double meaning. He obviously means that on a normal day he keeps his ass fresh.

But if you think about it, the asshole or anus is just the other opening of a very long tube leading to your mouth. And in between there's digestion. Digestion of the words, the ideas, the very visualizations that flow throughout his work. Even when he says "Dont hate me cause Im beautiful", he says it like he's got food in his mouth. He goes further in that very same song (Pretty man) and says "Maceo--can U blow?" , which again HAS A DOUBLE MEANING! Always with the double meaning. But you can also hear this in many many songs. In Poom Poom Poom, he sings the chorus as if he's taking a massive dump, and he even does the Poom Poom rap like he's chewing on something. Its as if ALL bodily functions are not sacred to Prince. They're all worthy of expression.


And express he does. It was said once in some magazine that where Marvin Gaye cracked the bedroom door open a wee bit with "Let's Get it On", Prince tore that bitch off it's hinges!