{for all music related posts, see .Evolving.Music}
Several weeks ago at the height of the election race, I posted concerning McCain and Palin's unauthorized campaign use of songs by several different artists. Well, the campaign is over, McCain has lost, but that doesn't mean he's ready to throw in the towel on the lawsuit brought against him by Jackson Browne. McCain (or, as McCain claims the Ohio Republican Party) used a 30 second clip of the Browne song "Running on Empty" in a commercial televised in Ohio. While a majority of McCain's usage of music by groups that are Democrats and in other ways don't support this aging war-hawk isn't eligible for trial as it was broadcast live and publicly at venues that traditionally have rights to use songs, Browne's lawsuit is the exception because it did it in a nationally televised with without asking for rights to use the song.
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