Artists' rights are somewhat related to this forum. The French
actually call these "moral rights." Woody Allen and other
filmmakers have campaigned heavily to strenthen the copyright laws
in this country to protect the rights of anyone who creates
intellectual property and to prevent the works of artists from
being distorted. Woody in fact doesn't even believe a film company
the owns a film outright has the right to colorize it, let alone
use all or part of the film to promote something other than the
film itself. For a politician like McCain to so flagrantly ignore
these rights is somewhat amazing to me since he could have just as
easily secured the permissions required to create the ads he
wanted. It does say something about how he feels about the rights
of artists creating works of art. FRANC
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Victor Medina
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] McCain Ad Featuring The Ten Commadments
Before we get all uppity, let me remind everyone that as poster
buyers and sellers, we can all be accused of the same thing!
Let's not get carried away here, and stay on topic. When it comes
to politics, the only opinion that counts is the one we cast on
ELECTION DAY, so register and vote!
Vic
What's clear from all of this is that the McCain campaign clearly
has no
respect for artists' copyrights and trademarks. FRANC
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MacLeod
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 3:34 PM
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No, Phil - the clip was used to satirize
a statement of Obama's making
it sound like he, Obama, was promising to stop the tides himself,
miraculously. You'd have to be following the campaign here to
understand. And it was a web ad, not a TV ad, and included other
in-jokes. A more recent web Ad - "The One II" - reprised the parting
of
the Red Sea clip - in this case leading to a shot of Obama body-
surfing
during his recent Hawaii vacation - and added Yul Brynner as well.
Here's a link to the McCain ads on Youtube - The One and the One II -
which will go down in history, regardless of the outcome of the
election.
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?ob=4
There was a third web ad - "Fan Club" - whose original version
concluded
with Wayne and Garth doing their "I'm not worthy" genuflection.
Mike
Myers objected, and the clip was removed. Another ad somewhat in the
same vein - Celeb, at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg - got a
lot of notice for comparing Obama to Paris and Britney as an empty
celebrity. I'm not sure, however, that anyone who hasn't been
following
the election fairly closely, in particular the messianic overtones of
the Obama campaign, will get them, especially the two "One" ads.
"Running on Empty" was a reference to energy policy, in particular
the
Democrats' resistance to new drilling for oil.
Colin
CK MacLeod Collectibles at ckmac.com
Kymar's on eBay
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Phil
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 02:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] McCain Ad Featuring The Ten Commadments
McCain is going to part the Red Sea if elected?
Or be in a remake of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
RUNNING ON EMPTY is about the state of his
campaign funds warchest?
Phil
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:58 PM
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> Don't know about any infringement with the usage of film clips, but
> McCain has continued to use music without permission from several
> artists including Jackson Browne who is suing his campaign for
$75,000
> for using his song "Runnin' On Empty" in one of his t.v. ads
without
> permission.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:40 PM, channinglylethomson wrote:
>
>> I was really surprised to see the TEN COMMANCMENTS footage of the
>> parting of the Red Sea with Charlton Heston as Moses used in the
>> recent McCain TV ad. From what I understand the film is
heavily
>> copyrighted (it's shown yearly still on network TV around
Passover/
>> Easter). Also, I think the ad includes music by Elmer
Bernstein from
>> the original soundtrack. Anyone know if they are using this
footage
>> with permission? Maybe the DeMille estate granted this. Seems
>> strange to me.
>>
>> Channing Thomson in San Francisco
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