# Prince and his copyright craziness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173 "2008-04-06T13:02:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173/21 "2008-04-06T22:01:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
**Gfactor** , I went through some of your links and rapidly developed a headache. The Creative Commons people should be promoting the heck out of their system by pointing to the traditional licensing regime and saying how difficult to use it really is.  
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And, of course, under creative commons, the artists don’t get paid at all.

Good luck gettting them to agree to that.

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**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173/22 "2008-04-06T23:01:01Z")

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I wonder if this girl paid the royalties.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z7dc3-N9Ag8/hqdefault.jpg "Abby sings "Independence Day" by Martina McBride") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dc3-N9Ag8)

So, this is actually a crime?

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**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173/23 "2008-04-06T23:48:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Otto]  
Bear in mind also that FatBaldGuy has something of a [history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250318) of providing incorrect legal information.  
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Wow, I got pitted four years ago, and I just now found out about it. Sorry, **Otto** , if I gave out incorrect information.

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**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173/24 "2008-04-07T02:17:37Z")

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Wait, how does this apply to karaoke? Do bars that have karaoke have to pay ASCAP?

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-and-his-copyright-craziness/444173/25 "2008-04-07T02:19:56Z")

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[QUOTE=wmulax93]  
Wait, how does this apply to karaoke? Do bars that have karaoke have to pay ASCAP?  
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Yes: [http://media.www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2005/01/31/News/Karaoke.Bars.Face.Copyright.Infringement.Lawsuits-847175.shtml](http://media.www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2005/01/31/News/Karaoke.Bars.Face.Copyright.Infringement.Lawsuits-847175.shtml)

[http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234325](http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234325)

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