FNS Records reports:

Bridge9 Records and Have Heart have filed a Copyright Violation to Myspace in regards to YOUTH OF TOGAY’s Myspace page. Myspace in turn has deleted their page without investigation.

Their complaint states that YOTG’s cover of Have Hearts “The Machinist” and the parody art of their album “The Things We Carry” have been illegally used. YOTG had recently posted the new track “The Gaychinist” from their upcoming single “The Dongs We Bury”.

Cover songs, rerecorded by YOTG, and other parody artists are protected legally by The Fair Use Act of 1976 . This law protects artists, cartoonists and musicians. High profile artists like Mad Magazine, Weird Al Yankovic and Bansky survive and are protected in their artistic en devours by this law, as is YOTG.

Youth of Togay now has a page at Pure Volume which can be viewed HERE

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Bridge Nine’s response after the jump

EDITOR:

I contacted Bridge 9 for a response and this is what they had to say:

Hi Adam,  

There was no “cease & desist” or legal action taken, all someone from B9 did was email MySpace to pull the songs down because the band didn’t think it was funny.  No lawyers, nothing like that, just a “This isn’t funny, and they’re using our song” type of email, so I guess the page got pulled.   Personally I can appreciate a good parody but no one at B9 or in Have Heart found “Youth Of ToGay” to be funny at all.

Another thing to note is that the “Fair Use” statute listed by YOTG *also* includes:

“The distinction between “fair use” and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission. Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.”

Thanks!
- Chris
B9

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