RIPPING OFF “HOTEL CALIFORNIA” EXPOSES A FRANK OCEAN OF DUMBASSES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x6gCbiiVPQ

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No, you CANNOT check in anytime you and yes, you CANNOT ever leave without paying.

Or something like that but it does show how totally in la-la-land people are about musical copyright.

Read the above and then weep at the arrogance and ignorance of it all.

Plus, despite his tweets, the lawsuit does not come from Don Henley who probably doesn’t give a rat’s arse about Mr. Ocean and is far more involved in preserving our Earth.

Bottom line: If you don’t have an original tune in your little brain and resort to lifting someone else’s art, be prepared to pay.

One would have thought that Frank Ocean and his posse would have learned something from Vanilla Ice ripping off Brian May and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” and calling it “Ice Ice Baby”- and May stumbling upon the track at a Club in Munich and asking the Deejay, “What’s that track?”

It was Number One in the US at the time.

May sued and both he and Bowie were quickly “re-instated” and credited as the co-songwriters and made a whack on the publishing royalties.