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Prince is mentally ill.

This ruined my traditional Valentine celebration.

I had ordered in my special KFC bucket, poured myself a beer, lit a candle, turned up the heating and I was ready to play the video.

But because of this silly 'Cease and Desist' notice, all I could do was cue up my legitimate Prince recording to play in the background, and then go online and masturbate to the Daily Beast's description of the video.

langebleu said:

This ruined my traditional Valentine celebration.

I had ordered in my special KFC bucket, poured myself a beer, lit a candle, turned up the heating and I was ready to play the video.

But because of this silly 'Cease and Desist' notice, all I could do was cue up my legitimate Prince recording to play in the background, and then go online and masturbate to the Daily Beast's description of the video.

But is it still "out there" somewhere? (Not asking for a link).

Misleading title. I thought he dissed the film (which everybody's been doing).

Yeah,

Prince doesn't help himself sometimes in this regard, for sure, and of course he's way too anal about all this usage stuff... but mentally ill?

This is a story where the watchwords are 'stripping' 'celebrity', 'emoticon' 'Instagram' and 'awesome'.

We're celebrating stupidity, celebrating anyone who owns a body, celebrating dumb thoughts, poor language execution, and social media fads that have taken the place of 'cultural communication'.

If we're not finding this kind of 'culture' completely vacuous, vapid and counterintuitive, if we can't see that life can be infinitely more interesting, rewarding, enjoyable and inspiring than car wreck of a story, we should really be worrying more about our collective mental health.

No doubt her team were quick to turn this non-event into a celeb. gossip story - so mission accomplished.

I want to say she looks like an official Carmen Electra blow-up doll, but that would be mean so I won't.

ahhh, back in the good old days (80-95) Prince would have brought her to his inner circle of bombshells (Vanity, Jill Jones, Carmen Electra, Mayte, etc)

now all we have lef is the old religious bored asexual weirdo...

prince is a bitter little man these days...a shame really.

She's obviously used the music and the "Fifty Shades of Grey" references to get attention to herself and she makes money from her "celebrity status". I had not idea who this person is, but I am probably not wrong assuming she wants to be famous. I have nothing against Prince taking the material down.

Why do people think they can break copyright laws for what are basically just ads for their own business endeavours? I believe most of these people are entrepreneurs even in the legal sense (they've usually gotten their names registered as the names of their companies and so on).

I personally think that using short snippets of other people's music for artistic purposes should be considered "fair use" (I'm totally pro-sampling). Maybe a bit hypocritical on my behalf, but let's not kid ourselves that this type of a thing would have anything to do with art.

Just get some teenager with a copy of Fruityloops to do some music for you for free if you're really such a cheapskate.

[Edited 2/18/15 3:40am]

Oh yeah, and the title of this thread is completely wrong.

novabrkr said:

She's obviously used the music and the "Fifty Shades of Grey" references to get attention to herself and she makes money from her "celebrity status". I had not idea who this person is, but I am probably not wrong assuming she wants to be famous. I have nothing against Prince taking the material down.

Why do people think they can break copyright laws for what are basically just ads for their own business endeavours? I believe most of these people are entrepreneurs even in the legal sense (they've usually gotten their names registered as the names of their companies and so on).

I personally think that using short snippets of other people's music for artistic purposes should be considered "fair use" (I'm totally pro-sampling). Maybe a bit hypocritical on my behalf, but let's not kid ourselves that this type of a thing would have anything to do with art.

Just get some teenager with a copy of Fruityloops to do some music for you for free if you're really such a cheapskate.

I agree with all that. If she wanted to get noticed what better way than using a Prince song, because then you'll get a letter "from Prince"('s lawyers) and you can get 10 times more mentions on 10 times more celebrity blogger sites. No matter how you spin it it's always going to sound like "So I guess Prince was watching porn and found..."

I understand why he wants to protect his music but how many C&D letters do you suppose are out there? It must be tens upon tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands because it's been going on years. How many people get one and still buy his new album?

Paying lawyers to piss off your fan base just seems dumb. Especially when you're putting out new music. It's a lot of negativity to send out into the world, nothing positive can come form it.

Everyone's version of "REAL" isn't the same. And 50 Shades of Gray isn't sexy. At all.

[Edited 2/20/15 11:18am]

Noodled24 said:

novabrkr said:

She's obviously used the music and the "Fifty Shades of Grey" references to get attention to herself and she makes money from her "celebrity status". I had not idea who this person is, but I am probably not wrong assuming she wants to be famous. I have nothing against Prince taking the material down.

Why do people think they can break copyright laws for what are basically just ads for their own business endeavours? I believe most of these people are entrepreneurs even in the legal sense (they've usually gotten their names registered as the names of their companies and so on).

I personally think that using short snippets of other people's music for artistic purposes should be considered "fair use" (I'm totally pro-sampling). Maybe a bit hypocritical on my behalf, but let's not kid ourselves that this type of a thing would have anything to do with art.

Just get some teenager with a copy of Fruityloops to do some music for you for free if you're really such a cheapskate.

I agree with all that. If she wanted to get noticed what better way than using a Prince song, because then you'll get a letter "from Prince"('s lawyers) and you can get 10 times more mentions on 10 times more celebrity blogger sites. No matter how you spin it it's always going to sound like "So I guess Prince was watching porn and found..."

I understand why he wants to protect his music but how many C&D letters do you suppose are out there? It must be tens upon tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands because it's been going on years. How many people get one and still buy his new album?

Paying lawyers to piss off your fan base just seems dumb. Especially when you're putting out new music. It's a lot of negativity to send out into the world, nothing positive can come form it.

Just nitpicking here, but Websheriff aren't lawyers really. They have lawyers, but its not as if lawyers have to take time to send our letters. They have bots to scower the web and when they find things that are red flags to their clients their reps take action. Not a difficult business... wish I had thought of it. You could make a lot of money. All major labels use them or similar service providers these days. Just to differing degrees of strictness, heavyhandedness etc

Noodled24 said:

laurarichardson said:

Noodled24 said:

I agree with all that. If she wanted to get noticed what better way than using a Prince song, because then you'll get a letter "from Prince"('s lawyers) and you can get 10 times more mentions on 10 times more celebrity blogger sites. No matter how you spin it it's always going to sound like "So I guess Prince was watching porn and found..."

I understand why he wants to protect his music but how many C&D letters do you suppose are out there? It must be tens upon tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands because it's been going on years. How many people get one and still buy his new album?

Paying lawyers to piss off your fan base just seems dumb. Especially when you're putting out new music. It's a lot of negativity to send out into the world, nothing positive can come form it.

-- Good Lord grow the fuck up.You cannot use copyrighted material without and sometimes payment. You cannot do this to Sony or Disney so why would it be okay for Prince. If a so-called fan gets upset over a letter who needs them as a fan as I doubt their cheap ass was buying any thing.

Actually you can. It's called "Fair Use", but thats another conversation.

There are plenty of fan versions and covers of say "let it go" from the Disney film Frozen. Disney don't care because it keeps the song (and by proxy the film) in peoples minds. As such some of them have gone viral.

As for fans. Prince needs all he can get when it comes to album sales. He had a large and very loyal following for 20 odd years, then he ripped appart Uptown and later Housequake. These were huge in the Prince-fan landscape.

Is it really worth paying lawyers to decimate your fanbase?

Call them so-called fans if it makes you feel better but you know as well as I do they were the people who were buying his albums.

lezama said:

Noodled24 said:

I agree with all that. If she wanted to get noticed what better way than using a Prince song, because then you'll get a letter "from Prince"('s lawyers) and you can get 10 times more mentions on 10 times more celebrity blogger sites. No matter how you spin it it's always going to sound like "So I guess Prince was watching porn and found..."

I understand why he wants to protect his music but how many C&D letters do you suppose are out there? It must be tens upon tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands because it's been going on years. How many people get one and still buy his new album?

Paying lawyers to piss off your fan base just seems dumb. Especially when you're putting out new music. It's a lot of negativity to send out into the world, nothing positive can come form it.

Just nitpicking here, but Websheriff aren't lawyers really. They have lawyers, but its not as if lawyers have to take time to send our letters. They have bots to scower the web and when they find things that are red flags to their clients their reps take action. Not a difficult business... wish I had thought of it. You could make a lot of money. All major labels use them or similar service providers these days. Just to differing degrees of strictness, heavyhandedness etc

I kind of wish I'd thought of it too. Fans are always going to talk about artists and post/share pictures/music online just as they do offline. So the work is never ending. All you have to do is fire out some template emails. All the collateral damage comes at the expense of the artist, I mean sending out C&D letters isn't going to expand an artists fanbase.

[Edited 2/22/15 14:06pm]

Arjuna said:

On the REAL: You know the entirety of our global society is really taking a bad turn for the worse. Sodom and Ghemora, to be exact and the BIG MAN above is gonna come right down on all of us and SMACK us on the head! I beleve SOONER than LATER! Dontcha know the father of all is not going to let his children he gave life and love to... play in the sunshine until they get burnt??? It's one thing to dance IT IS another thing to "Sell Ya Soul". Prince has every right to stop somebody from stealing his music to better their bank account!Ya can't walk in a bank and get free money, so why would a woman think she can steal from him without even asking first. OR maybe he needs to strut on DOWN to her house, walk in and steal all her stuff? Same thing, theft is theft period whenn ya don't ask first, period! My take on it, Just n the REAL. Arjuna

We're in for an infero of eternal damnation because some stripper put up a few seconds of herself dancing to a pop song from 1991 on her social media page?