MGMT ‘insulted’ by €1 offer from Sarkozy’s party — I guess it is OK to steal when the bosses do it.
U.S. indie band MGMT has threatened to sue French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party for repeatedly using one if its hit songs without permission, unless the band is fully compensated for its use.
The Union pour un Mouvement Populaire party paid a standard €53 fee $75.54 Cdn. to France’s music licensing body, but MGMT’s lawyer Isabelle Wekstein says that this was not enough to cover subsequent uses of the song, particularly on the Web.
The party has admitted to using the popular track, Kids, at its national congress in January, in two online videos and in political advertisements. But it claims this was an unintentional mistake and offered the band a symbolic €1 $1.43 Cdn. for copyright infringement.
Wekstein has rejected the offer, calling it insulting.
Found by Mike Cosmi.
MP3 file courtesy KEXP-FM in Seattle.
A long time member of Pirate Bay.
Aarrr.
kitchy song.
Vive La France.
Hold on… a French government political party used a song with ENGLISH lyrics? There must be rioting in the streets of Paris for the insult to the precious French language.
Unless… hey Canadians… are Canadian musicians required to produce French language version of your songs?
Finally, something to like about this guy, apart from his wife of course.
This man, and his music-industry friends, are passing the “democratic” world’s strongest laws against music piracy. Their last idea is to block public wifi accesses with an official white-list of web sites. Sometimes, I too am ashamed of my country…
Every time you press the Click > Listen to the song button, the RIAA charges Dvorak one euro.