I love this band! Fuck Prince. Fuck Prince up his stupid asshole.

Free the music, indeed.

Untwisted knickers, indeed.

You got that right.

Prince shouldn't do coverz anywayz.

The issue is not about the song, it's about his live performance of the song recorded illegally and then posted on the net.

Prince can not claim copyright over a song that was not writen by him simply because he performed it and someone recorded it.

Radiohead should threaten to sue him for playing and recording (since he also recorded it) their song - which he did not have permission to do.

Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos
By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer


After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn't be there ran to YouTube for a peek. Everyone was quickly denied - even Radiohead.

All videos of Prince's unique rendition of Radiohead's early hit were quickly taken down, leaving only a message that his label, NPG Records, had removed the clips, claiming a copyright violation. But the posted videos were shot by fans and, obviously, the song isn't Prince's.

In a recent interview, Thom Yorke said he heard about Prince's performance from a text message and thought it was "hilarious." Yorke laughed when his bandmate, guitarist Ed O'Brien, said the blocking had prevented him from seeing Prince's version of their song.

"Really? He's blocked it?" asked Yorke, who figured it was their song to block or not. "Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment."

Yorke added: "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our ... song."

YouTube prohibits the posting of copyrighted material. If the site receives a complaint from a copyright owner, it will in most cases remove the video(s). Whether the same could be done for a company not holding a copyright is less clear, but Yorke's argument would seem to bear some credence according to YouTube's policies. YouTube, which is owned by Google, declined to comment.

Prince also did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

The dispute was an interesting twist in debates over digital ownership, held between two major acts with differing views on music and the Internet. Radiohead famously released their most recent album, "In Rainbows," as a digital download with optional pricing. They also have a channel on YouTube.

When Prince performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 26, he prohibited the standard arrangement of allowing photographers to shoot near the stage during the first three songs of his set. Instead, he had a camera crew filming his performance.

Prince, who founded NPG Records in 1993, has been innovative when it comes to music distribution, too. He released his 1997 album, "Crystal Ball," on the Internet and in 2006 was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Webbys. In 2007, he gave away copies of his disc "Planet Earth" in a British Sunday newspaper.

But the Purple One has also shut down his official Web site and in September of last year said he would sue YouTube and eBay for not filtering unauthorized content.

Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself. As of Thursday, the most popular YouTube clip about Prince playing "Creep" is an expletive-laden rant from Sam Conti Jr., who describes himself as a "former Prince fan."

ok, you guys are right.

people cussing on the interwebs - who ever heard of such a thing?

it's not that but I'm not going to take this thread off topic.

you might as well,
after all, this isn't a big deal to be prince news, right?

He's gonna have to get with the times.....

I don't think this has anything to do with the song, but more to do with the actual physical performance. I think he doesn't want to be seen by anyone outside of performance dates and times. It's just another image control thing, and very little to do with the silly song.

Sounds like to me that Radiohead has got their fair share of arrogance too...thinking that Prince is trying to "lay claim" to their song...lololol!