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From:
Aronne Merrelli
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Date:
Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:13:12 PDT
Subject:
[idm] music in commercials & TV
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I was disturbed a couple days ago to hear a song from Christophe de Babylon's "If you're into, I'm out of it" during a TV commercial - one of the commercials in the ad campaign airing in the US called 'the truth' (if you haven't seen this, basically they are supposedly exposing 'the truth' about the tobacco industry and its evils. check www.thetruth.com/tvspot/html/index.html, its the 'danny' movie.) Also recently I heard one of tunes from Logical progression 1 (I think it was Bukem's Demons Theme) in the background of that Earth 2000 show that was on one of the major networks. Since this is an increasing trend (use of underground electronic music, to make adverts seem more trendy, I suppose) I wonder if the artists / labels are getting ripped off here. Debatably this exposure is a good thing, because more people are hearing the music - but are they getting paid for this use? I guess I don't really have a point to make (well, maybe the point is that smaller independent labels need to watch their back more often... like the whole UR - Sony crap), but anyone else have comments? or notice other underground stuff on TV? etc? Regards, Aronne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org