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A fair request.
Or at least make him pay substantial royalties.
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Not sure Reagan’s handlers knew what Born in the USA was all about.
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Once Walker gets his state Supreme Court the way he wants it, his attorney general can target the band’s attorneys for racketeering lol
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They didn’t.
I’d have liked to have seen Obama use it just to piss the GOP off.
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I am sure they would be happy to let him use their songs - at $10M each time he plays it 
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What is it with Republicans inability to respect musicians intellectual property rights? Regan and the Boss, Palin and Heart, and now Walker and Dropkick Murphys.
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Wouldn’t War Pigs be more appropriate?
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Slightly off-topic, but I’ve never understood Chrissie Hynde allowing Limbaugh to use “My City Was Gone.”
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How is it legal to use music without permission to begin with? Or is it legal unless the owner asks you to stop?
What on earth is the connection between Shipping up to Boston and a Wisconsin governor speaking to Iowa Republicans?
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Their record label owns the rights to the song. I’m sure it makes her sick too.
Walker seems like more of a Nugent man.
I think a lot of it has to do with the GOP’s failing to comprehend the word “intellectual”. 
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Oh lord yeah!!
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He certainly has the state in a stranglehold…
No word on whether he likes raping teenage girls though.
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Her parents listened to Rush and liked him…at the time, back in the 80s, she hadn’t a clue who he was. He pays a usage fee to her and her record company I believe, and she donates all of it to PETA.
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Actually, from what I have read, she is ok with it…as long as he keeps paying to use it.
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Thanks. It was an assumption on my part.
American icon. Kennedy Center honors. Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. 20 Grammy Awards. Academy Award. 2 Golden Globes. 2 Emmy Awards. 15th highest selling artist of all time. Super Bowl halftime performer. And Daniel Strauss still can’t spell his name? Call it pettifogging, as some will, (not to mention desist), but c’mon!
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Using someone’s copyrighted music at an event like this without permission is almost always illegal. It’s obviously a difficult thing to enforce because the copyright holder and the people who manage the licensing can’t be everywhere listening to what they put on the PA system.
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