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Have U Been Sued By Prince I've heard of it, but I've never heard the stories. Except for that baby incident. | |
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i got a cease and desist when i put Dance 4 Me on my blog :/
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Not yet! | |
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prince has never sued anyone, but i've been involved with a few things that had cease and decist orders. once i took a phone call in between sitting front row at soundcheck and front row at the gig to say a C&D had been faxed | |
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Google it if you want to know more about it.
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oh yes he has.
Uptown.
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Nope... but have heard stories as well... I had a few blogs and posted lots of Prince stuff... no cease and desist letters. Though I didn't actually have the mail coming to my house, so who knows... This better antonb and PurpleSpirit319 | |
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Controversy fanzine, Prince family, Uptown, Housequake.com Prince 4Ever.  | |
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no he hasn't he never sued any of those, or the ones thedance mentions. he just fires off threats but has never actually taken any of them to court, nevemind succeeded in actually winning his case and suing someone | |
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I meant individual people | |
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Can he sue you for using his song titles? | |
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I've not been sued, but I have been screwed.
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the list goes on and on.... . |
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oh lawd call the law [Edited 5/1/11 17:16pm] This better antonb and PurpleSpirit319 | |
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yeah, many times on youtube. he (i mean his people) removed my... i guess... three accounts (Princelicous, loveyoursign and showmeyouract) . but i'm still uploading his videos So evil girl, if one of us has a date,
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SquirrelMeat said: I've not been sued, but I have been screwed.
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the list goes on and on.... Blenheim Palace I got a refund for that, didn't everyone? | |
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Romeoblu said: SquirrelMeat said: I've not been sued, but I have been screwed.
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the list goes on and on.... Blenheim Palace I got a refund for that, didn't everyone? I did not  .My ex got a cease and desist letter once and I opened the door when it got delievered to our apartment while he was on vacation. I was so pissed as there was no reason for that shit at all. I thought it were our Crystal ball Cds we had ordered. We never ever got them BTW. With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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And about the NPGMC. I had been a member when it was 100,- and then didn't renew my membership for some time, but bought that life membership about 2 or 3 weeks before the site closed for good . I didn't get anything out of that new membership at all.With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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I got a cease and desist emails and about 6 emails and messages from the Web Sheriff.
I also got an email, telling me that a 'party' had requested my contact info concerning a legal matter. So I sent the web sheriff rep my info. I told him "all you need to do is ask, you know as well as I KNOW, you have no case and neither you nor Prince is going to follow through with this matter...."
and they did not.
(has he ever really sued ANY of the people?) "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Yes | |
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Yes, it's not big or so but still,
My youtubechannel was almost hitting the 1million views, but got warned and banned by the NPG. At that moment, I was the only one offering video footage of the Superbowl show. Have a look at 'The W2A: Euro Tour Song Survey' http://prince.org/msg/12/362417 | |
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the main thing I remember was the little copyright notice on the emails and messages from the Web Sheriff. Saying that we could not divulge the content of the message to anyone other than our lawyers. I posted all of mine on the ones I got in the descriptions and in the comments. They never said anything about it. (I finally took down the other videos they were complaining about. the other they took down the others they just threaten legal action) "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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I remember UPTOWN had to stage a huge defense and countersuit as i recall. Alex Hahn headed that up and I am shocked more people weren't grateful to him for his time and effort to keep UPTOWN able to publish.
What sort of idiot sues his fans? Oh yeah... I know now. The expanded version of my book PRINCE and The Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983-1984 was released in November 2018. (www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538114623/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) or www.facebook.com/groups/1...104195943/ | |
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I don't know how many people he's sued, but I got a nasty letter from youtube after I posted a video of me and my 2 year old daughter singing 15 seconds of Little Red Corvette. I assumed they took it down cuz of my singing, but it was cuz of copyright issues. Cuz you all know, 15 seconds of a fat guy and a toddler singing his song is gonna hurt his bottom line. | |
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He might sue you if you breathe too much of his air. time flies. |
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802 said: I've heard of it, but I've never heard the stories. Except for that baby incident. It was the mother in the baby cvideo that sued prince. Edit: I hate auto correct! [Edited 5/2/11 19:38pm] "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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I was forced to take down a picture I took at Paisley Park during the Xenophobia festival. I posted it on my blog page I used to do. It was a picture of the outside of the building looking in. I got some stupid cease and desist letter. The site had NOTHING to do with Prince except for I mentioned that I went and I posted the picture. It was a picture of the chalk writing everyone did on the cement with a background of PP. I still buy his music but I have to admit I am not as big of a fan anymore since then. It really changed my view of him quite a bit. Im glad actually because there is SO much music out there that is honestly better than Prince and all of these years I had my Prince blinders on. | |
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The "baby incident" was Universal Music Publishing, not Prince (technically)
The only fan(s) sued by Prince were the Uptown Magazine team.
There have however been several close calls during the time of the Prince Fans United organisation (this site itself was heavily threatened with a lawsuit at the time), however a contractual settlement was reached.
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So it was all a myth. Good news. | |
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I wouldn't go so far as calling it a myth.
Using various agencies and lawyers to aggresively pursue your fans for minor infringments is not normal behaviour for any artist.
OK, there is a line between threatening to sue your fans and actually taking them to court but the only real reason only one has made it to this point is becuase a kind fan (Alex Hahn) went to the trouble of persuading his boss to do the work pro-bono.
Only once PFU responded to the Housequake / prince.org / Princefams threats in a confident (and very public) manner did Prince's representatives back down. In all other cases, the fans have backed down, mainly due to fear of liability - something which in my opinion has been exploited.
OK, there are genuine cases where people making money from fans should be supported (one thing I personally abhor is "free" bootleg releases being resold) but these have historically been in the minority.
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I meant, just the suing everyone part. | |
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