Presumed Presidential Pirate

THE PRESUMED Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain favors draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses other people's music.
His campaign has been caught using various entertainment content owned by ABBA, Chuck Berry, John Hall, John Mellencamp, filmmaker Mike Myers of Wayne's World and Frankie Valli without permission, and has been either shamed or threatened into discontinuing use of the offending material.
Now singer-songwriter Jackson Browne has sued John McCain and the Republican Party because the Ohio Republican Party is using Browne's song "Running on Empty" in a TV attack ad against rival Barack Obama.
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Jersey Boys in Detroit

Pop vocal combo Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons may be remembered for many things, but being Motown artists is probably not one of them. Yet, for a brief time in the early 1970s, the New Jersey-based combo were active on the Mowest subsidiary, while Valli himself was a full-fledged member of the Motown family.
Now, for the first time ever, Hip-oSelect.com collects the great Motown albums and singles of the Four Seasons and solo Frankie Valli released from 1972 through 1975. The Motown Years, a 2-CD set compiled with the cooperation of the group, features the album Chameleon and the LP issued as a Valli solo set, Inside You, along with every U.S. and U.K. single not included on either LP.
available HERE