Quote of the day
"There is nothing as it stands to stop the BNP from acting in this way and there is nothing that the performers can do to prevent it. If a moral right came in you would then be able to test how far you could stretch it. Billy Bragg, for example, could find his track 'New England' for sale on a BNP website raising money for something that he has spent his entire musical life campaigning against. We would like to think that there should be a framework in this country sufficient to prevent something like that happening."
Er, yes, agreed Mr Nigel McCune of the Musicians' Union.
There ain't nuthin' like good ol' out-of-context musical appropriation. I suspect Foo Fighters and Heart would sympathise...
Friday, May 29, 2009
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It's nowhere near as bad as they're making out - I'd almost call it publicity-seeking. Their music is being sold by a wholesaler who happen to be the BNP club shop; it's no worse than the music being sold by an independant shop owner who gives a large proportion of his income to the BNP. We don't need laws to restrict who can and cannot sell your music any more than we need laws restricting when, where and how you can listen to it.
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