Prince, Record Label Go Crazy over Dancing Baby

61. Prince is a musical genius. But he's an a**hole, plain and simple.

Posted at 7:10PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Scott

62. Yep, stupidity courtesy of ASCAP type tactics. Cant even listen to popular music in a public place without those Nazi losers ruining it

Posted at 2:06PM on Oct 27th 2007 by jbird

63. Are you kidding me?? that little midget should be happy somebody still remembers his lame ass songs. get a life.

Posted at 2:37PM on Oct 27th 2007 by NubianGoddez

64. Pft! How absurd! How it is "copyright infrigement" to have music playing in a video you're not even trying to make money off of? Last time I looked just about every video on Your Tube had someone else's music playing in the background that they didn't have official "permission" to use. I guess Prince just picked the ONE video playing anything of his merely to get his name in print? Cause he isn't in the news for much else lately....

Posted at 6:11PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Alisa

65. I saw this story on a morning show yesterday. They said the music playing in the background was from the Super Bowl halftime show. The mother wasn't even playing it from a CD. And she posted the video to share with her family and friends. I understand the legal aspects but where do you draw the line?

Posted at 2:42PM on Oct 27th 2007 by DL

66. I work in music publishing and these are my two cents:

ASCAP/BMI should be the ones involved here, not Universal publishing. YouTube is liable, not the mother who posted the video.

Why?

ASCAP/BMI are the ones that collect writer royalties from broadcast companies from radio and TV stations. Like radio and TV stations, YouTube makes money from the advertising.

The mom is not making money off of Prince's work, YouTUbe is.

ASCAP/BMI should be monitoring and/or suing YouTube for the broadcast of copywritten works, because ultimately YouTube makes money off of the people that post stuff on YouTube. Plain and simple.

Posted at 2:24PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Work in music pub.

67. HE SHOULD BE HAPPY A NEW GENERATION IS LISTENING TO THAT CRAP.

Posted at 2:18PM on Oct 27th 2007 by lisa

68. THIS MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hey Prince GO TO HELL! you prick!

Posted at 2:20PM on Oct 27th 2007 by moon cricket

69. If the kid be black it prolly be diffrent. Vote for me. I ax you, please.

Posted at 2:21PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Barack

70. Prince should be so lucky to have a younger generation listening to his music. Bad PR move for Universal.

Posted at 4:47PM on Oct 27th 2007 by TReam

71. typical !

Posted at 2:21PM on Oct 27th 2007 by jig-a-boo

72. Yeah, Prince, and tell those kids at the Little Sunbeams Pre-School not to crank that up on their Big Bird record players!

Posted at 2:24PM on Oct 27th 2007 by wasted days and wasted nights

73. Prince, you are a nice person. Just give the family permission to show their
baby dancing to your song. This is an innocent, cute, dancing baby. They
were at least listening to your song, that should be flattering. I understand your
principle but a baby dancing to your music is also cool.

Posted at 2:24PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Jackie

74. This baby dances better than Britney did at the VMA's

Posted at 2:27PM on Oct 27th 2007 by z

75. SInce when is it bad to video tape your child having fun in your own home listening to your own music? What a bitch society we live in. Don't put you music out there for people to buy if you don't want them listening to it, you little purple man. Oh and it was about the cute kid not that old song.

Posted at 2:27PM on Oct 27th 2007 by WTF