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Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song
First time accepted submitter Joe_Dragon writes "The composer of the Survivor hit Eye of the Tiger has sued Newt Gingrich to stop the Republican presidential candidate from using the Rocky III anthem at campaign events. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Chicago by Rude Music Inc., the Palatine-based music publishing company owned by Frank Sullivan, who, with Jim Peterik, composed the song and copyrighted it in 1982. The lawsuit states that as early as 2009, Gingrich has entered rallies and public events to the pulsing guitar riffs of the song. In a lengthy section of the five-page complaint, Rude's attorneys point out that Gingrich is well aware of copyright laws, noting he is listed as author or co-author of more than 40 published works and has earned between $500,000 to $1 million from Gingrich Productions, a company that sells his written work, documentaries and audio books. It also notes Gingrich's criticism of the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' during a recent debate in South Carolina, where Gingrich suggested the law was unnecessary because 'We have a patent office, we have copyright law. If a company finds it has genuinely been infringed upon, it has the right to sue.' The suit asks for an injunction to prevent Gingrich from using the song, as well as damages and attorneys' fees to be determined by the court."
Although in Newt's case, "holes" should be added to that quote.
Wanting to control our boarders is not racist. Wanting to close our boarders to anyone with brown skin is racist. Policies to make it more difficult for people who don't know English to travel our country, while we enjoy multi-lingual support pretty much everywhere else in the world is racist.
In that time money could be saved to eventually go through that process.
Tell that to someone currently living in a country where the average yearly wage is about $200.
You got lucky. American immigration policy has been run by the racist fringe for far too long. The quotas on who can come, from where, the various payment schemes are ALL designed to ensure that more Euros/WASP's move to the US than anyone else.
Open the quotas. Stop setting up these ridiculously racist quotas where essentially unlimited immigration is allowed from European countries (whose limits are set so high that 10% of their population would have to move in a single year to hit it) while deliberately choking off quotas from the nations where people want to come to the US to seek jobs, but happen to not be white-skinned enough.