A bold move by Prince

[karrie]

It would seem that, since he has so many die hard fans, prince has decided he'd best alienate those who've stuck with him.


Prince vs. fans

11/06/2007 7:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Dotmusic

Prince is involved in a head-to-head dispute with three unofficial fan websites, after reportedly demanding they remove all images of him.
The sites--housequake.com, princefams.com, and prince.org--have now launched "Prince Fans United," in protest at his action.


Claming they are under "constant threats from Prince and his attorneys," the webmasters from each online community has vowed to fight the move.
They have posted a statement, which explains he is trying "to stifle all critical commentary," insisting: "We strongly believe that such actions are in violation of the freedom of speech and should not be allowed."
They claim the pop star has even demanded the removal of "fan's own photographs of their Prince-inspired tattoos and their vehicles displaying Prince-inspired license plates."
The statement continues: "It is their hope that Prince will reconsider his position and allow these fansites to continue their existence without constant threats from Prince and his attorneys. Should this not be possible, the fansites are fully prepared to defend their position in the proper court of law, as well as fully prosecute any claims to which they are justly entitled."
There has so far been no official comment from Prince about the dispute.

 

[eh1eh]

Seems Prince is a bit of a Princess. <snicker...snerk>, oh ya, <snort>

 

[missile]

Anybody here remember when he was talented?Back before he became a symbol? Yeah,Purple Rain and 1999. Now his ego has surpassed any talents he has left.

 

[eh1eh]

Anybody here remember when he was talented?Back before he became a symbol? Yeah,Purple Rain and 1999. Now his ego has surpassed any talents he has left.

Good times they were. lol
He used up his talent there for sure. Now he should stick to counting his money.

 

[lone wolf]

I thought he was just another Walt Disney production like New Kids and Monkees. Not feed his ego? His best friend's gonna starve.

Woof!

 

[triedit]

Who?

Seriously though, he should be grateful anyone out there still cares.

 

[Brat]

Any kind of press is good press.
He must try to stay in the lime light or be forgotten completely.

 

[gopher]

Prince is a local product but, perhaps not so strangely, is not very popular in Gopherland. It seems like small time bands and groups such as the Jayhawks and Semisonics get much of the attention. For several years Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were the biggest names in the local scene. Bob Dylan is enjoying quite a resurgence in popularity. While each is identified as a Minnesotan, this is not necessarily true of Prince who is not spoken of as being a native Gopher.

Why? Dunno.

 

[jimmoyer]

Prince has not lost any talent. Nor has he lost his weirdness either.

He still pulled off a great phallic sillouette at the Superbowl extending his trademark
guitar designed like the icon he used when he was known as "the artist formerly known as prince."

 

[TomG]

I wonder what happened to a suit against Prince and his record company. The suit was launched by a woman who posted a video on YouTube of her young child dancing in her kitchen to one of Prince’s tunes. The tune could be heard on the video. The woman sued after Prince’s agents told her she could not circulate her video publically.

Joseph Stiglitz used the international trade agreements and related legislation on intellectual property rights as an example of how the system is absurdly biased in favour of corporate producers [my words]. I wonder if the suit was settled out of court. The producers certainly have an interest that there will be no precedent setting judgments that diminish their absurd assertions of what their copyrights protect.

Everything has become property. The sounds of daily living might become a corporate division. Language dialects might be bought by conglomerates. Glaswegians can no longer venture out of their houses. People with the wrong genes might have to pay a license fee (several hundred parts of the human genome are already owned). Our culture is owned. We have no folk ways. We have no stories. The public domain is shrinking faster than the ice caps. We are becoming simply entirely corporate. Corporate; members of a body. A Borg projection. We the people get to be owned by our governments of the peoples.

An elder and holy person once said something like: ‘Where are your stories? If you have no stories, how do you know who you are and tell right from wrong?’ The speaker might have been Black Elk, but who can remember? An heir to who wrote down what Black Elk said holds the copyright (and uses them respectfully I believe). I do not begrudge copyrights exactly, but I do begrudge that our culture gets nothing out of present property arrangements. Our culture is dying from ownership. Our culture is us.

Having said that, I have to stop now to work on the art-work for my book. The title already is copyrighted as an unpublished artistic work.