The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Heather. Redmon. wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:Damnation Affirmative!

I like it!... but, for now we're not changing anything!

For now? For ever.

I mean, unless you want to change it. That's allowed.

Furrypedro wrote:If only I'd have thought of that back in November

Dear Peter:

It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of a copyrighted work entitled "Those Meddling Kids" in the preparation of a work derived therefrom, bitch. I have reserved all rights in the Work (and copyrights and trademarks and shit), first published in an email to you in November,[and have registered copyright and stuff like marks of writ, yo, therein]. Your work entitled [Those Meddling Kids] is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis. Man, you even admitted that you lifted the phraseology from my electronic courier to you.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis ...look, dude: 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. says your ass is liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein. That's like 70K POUNDS STERLING or whatever.

I demand that you immediately hand me some cash money or my team of myspace lawyers is gonna have a fieeeeeeld day.

Very truly yours,
egg (The First egg ever)

Egg wrote:

Very truly yours,
egg (The First egg ever)

Now at least we know that the chicken was second.

Dear Mr. Egg,

Despite dying in 1999, I am appalled by your band, Phunt your Friends. Your use of the word Phunt sullies my good name. Years ago, the name Funt was synonymous with hilarious hidden camera hijinks and practical jokes. Now it describes avantgarde indie experiment noise music that I just don't understand. Please cease and desist from using the name or my ghost will haunt your ass.

Sincerly,
Allen Funt

Register "Hell Yeahs" as a trademark.

Egg wrote: Dear Peter:

Very truly yours,
egg (The First egg ever)

well spotted too, my mind reading techniques are often missed.
The sterling pounds are in the post, and I'll desist......now, no wait......now.
I'd change it but then I'd have to do loads more work climbing up the 'number of entries' charts again and nobody would think i was as hardcore as Thornberry (like they do at the moment).

Heather. Redmon. wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:Damnation Affirmative!

I like it!... but, for now we're not changing anything!

Well, I guess not... our myspace account was deleted today...by myspace I guess

This is the notice that I got in my email today...

lnkmlaxnkv___thkjd.rfh@message.myspace.com
to me
More options 11:05 am(6 hours ago)
Hello,

MySpace has deleted your profile because we received a credible complaint of your violation of the MySpace Terms of Services.

Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
-Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts and/or bots to add friends, send messages, etc.
-For band and filmmaker profiles, MySpace prohibits sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive content intended to draw traffic to the profile.
-MySpace also investigates credible complaints of copyright/trademark infringement and will delete any materials that infringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties.

For a more thorough list of prohibited content/activity, please refer to the MySpace Terms of Service located at the bottom of MySpace.com.

If we delete your account, it cannot be reinstated.

Thank you,
MySpace.com

Was this the first communication from MySpace to you? I find that not only rude, but pretty lame. I am too weak to respond right now with the true fury this demands.

hmmm. That's kinda lame.

Wow. What the hell.

Perhaps you should've moved to do the same to them? Definitely contact MySpace, though. This is bull. They should've mediated before this.

There are no grounds for this. And MySpace shouldn't just delete an account based on some singular complaint.

Agreed. I'm pissed off, but wtf ever. We still have our stuff up here. I was really suprised that the account was deleted without and previous contact from myspace at all. I really don't feel much like fighting I guess. They must have felt pretty damn threatened by us if they took such drastic measures to "get rid" of us. The whole thing is total bullshit. Grrrr!

You want me to make something happen? I know people.

I know people too, but they break kneecaps and set people on fire. Not that that wouldn't be appropriate in this instance.

I am thinking a SongFight complaint Spam of MySpace.

sausage boy wrote:I know people too, but they break kneecaps and set people on fire.

That may or may not be what I was saying...

Something can definitely be done. And the evil Hell Yeahs should pay for their abuse of the MySpace system.

catch wrote:You want me to make something happen? I know people.

This is the best.

And I think a Fuck the Evil Hell Yeahs sidefight is in order. Hell yeah! We can post so many anti-Evil Hell Yeahs songs on so many sites, cross-linked and all viral like, it'll at least make them feel weird. Better yet, parodies of all their songs!

Awesome!

That would be kick ass!

I am so going to do this.

I'll download some Evil Hell Yeahs songs today and make a start.

Fuck the Evil Hell Yeahs! (FEHY)

it's a sad day when a rock n' roll bands resort to legal threats and tattling to the powers that be on a social networking site.

Geez. That a Portland band that broke up in April did all that, is damned offensive.

I know people too. And TEHY is in my town.

Yes, I agree, it's evil parody time. And more.

I'm always down for some evil parodying.

MySpace's "customer support" sucks huge ass. I uploaded "We Are All Famous" ... uh, let's see ... not sure... a year ago? And it never showed up on the page. So I sent a help message... two months or so went by until they sent me an automated email to tell me how to upload a song. Which I had done already - obviously they hadn't actually read my message, I'm amazed these people even were able to get their attention. Blech. I guess I'm just saying don't expect much from "support".
-bill

Seeing as the Evil Hell Yeahs have gone this route, why don't you cut them off at the pass.

The laws they cited in their original message to you are copyright laws and as we already know, you can copyright songs but not bandnames. Bandnames are trademarked. The Evil Hell Yeahs don't own the trademark on the bandname "The Hell Yeahs". There is a t-shirt company by the name "Hell Yeah" but that wouldn't be a conflict. Instead of doing a sidefight to rag on the Evil Hell Yeahs, how about a fundraiser of some sort to help the Good Hell Yeahs pay for getting the trademark for the bandname as well as the servicemark. The Good Hell Yeahs don't really need to have the Servicemark but if they get it- the other Hell Yeahs couldn't perform under the name either. Altogether, it costs about 500 bucks for both.