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> Or as Fogerty put it while recalling the episode, "I was sued for sounding like myself." TFA additionally has the appropriate quotation marks around the head
by taco_emoji 11y ago
> Or as Fogerty put it while recalling the episode, "I was sued for sounding like myself."
TFA additionally has the appropriate quotation marks around the headline, but they were not carried over to the link here on HN for whatever reason.
You're welcome to rail against poetic license if you want, I guess, but at least blame the right person.
- chasing 11y agoThose seven words are a quote, yes, but Erik Devaney uses that quote as evidence in a longer section about the absurdity of artists losing the right to write music using their own voice. Which is not at all what the Fogerty lawsuit was about. And it's not even what the rest of the article is about. And using the word "sued" without indicating "unsuccessfully" is tantamount to lying, I think. He knows people will assume that means "successfully sued" and will feel outraged and -- hopefully -- post it to Twitter or Hacker News.
- davvolun 11y agoIf I were sued and the expected costs of litigation were $1.35M, 'successfully' and 'unsuccessfully' would be purely academic -- I would never be able to afford to get to that point!
- FireBeyond 11y agoHardly a comparison, unless your net worth is $70M+, like John Fogerty's.
- taco_emoji 11y ago> ...Devaney uses that quote as evidence in a longer section about the absurdity of artists losing the right to write music using their own voice Devaney does not use the word "voice" even once in his article, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
- chasing 11y agoSorry, I should clarify: "Artistic voice." Like, personal style and perspective on the universe. The thing that might lead distinct pieces of music from the same artist to kind of sound similar. "Man, that sure sounds like John Fogerty song." Not literal singing voice.