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- From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
- Subject: Re: Casey (oh f**k) Kasem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.161344.7859@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <1dun8bINNebm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <bsholly.29sk@terapin.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:13:44 GMT
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- In article <bsholly.29sk@terapin.com> bsholly@terapin.com (Brian Sholly) writes:
- >>Negativland released a single entitled "I still haven't found what I'm looking
- >>for" which was banned after a lawsuit from Island records. Supposedly, if
- >>Casey Kasem gives it the OK, it can be reissued once again. So if anyone is
- >
- >Actually, the single is U2 (Thats the letter U and the numeral 2). And I doubt
- >Casey Kasem's OK could do anything to get the single re-released, the lawsuit
- >was with U2 and Island. I think they got the rights to it too so they'd be the
- >ones that have the final say so.
-
- Actually, according to U2, or at least the Edge anyway, they've no problems
- with giving control of the single back to Negativland. Island sued without
- bothering to talk to U2 and when they finally told them, U2 said, "Well,
- gee, it's kind of a fun record actually. We have no problems with it."
- But since Island had already invested money in research for the suit they
- went ahead anyway so they could recoup their legal costs (as if they'd
- *miss* them.) The only real obstacle is Casey Kasem threatening a lawsuit
- if Negativland releases the single again. Or so I read in _The Letter U
- and the Numeral 2_ anyway, the latest release from Negativland. It's worth
- buying. A big magazine detailing their legal battles to date and a 30
- minute CD from their radio program dealing with copyright problems in
- art.
-
- -- Stewart "would kill for a copy of the U2 single" Tame
-
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