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White Stripes Think Music in Air Force Super Bowl Commercial Sounds Familiar

By Bruce Carton

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As the rock band The White Stripes once observed, "I said it once before but it bears repeating now:" Don't rip off other people's music. I challenge anyone who has listened to rock music in the past decade to listen to the guitar riff in the Air Force Reserve Super Bowl ad below and not instantly recognize it as having originated elsewhere. Sound familiar? The White Stripes thinks so, too. On Monday, the band wrote on its Web site that: We believe our song was re-recorded and used without permission of the White Stripes, our publishers, label or management. The White Stripes take strong insult and objection to the Air Force Reserve presenting this advertisement with the implication that we licensed one of our songs to encourage recruitment during a war that we do not support. ... We have not licensed this song to the Air Force Reserve and plan to take strong action to stop the ad containing this music. For the three of you out there who did not recognize the famous guitar riff in The White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl," listen to the song below: In response, the Air Force Reserve said that, via...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).