burden Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Axl no longer has control over how his music is used. He sold his publishing rights to Merc's company a couple of years ago. I think it was 20 million pounds for the next 15 years or so. Slash/Duff would still own their righst and would have had to agreewith the publishing company to sell PC for this ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdlove Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Axl no longer has control over how his music is used. He sold his publishing rights to Merc's company a couple of years ago. I think it was 20 million pounds for the next 15 years or so. Slash/Duff would still own their righst and would have had to agreewith the publishing company to sell PC for this ad.If true that was a great business deal on Axl's part has long as he still get the royalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dariablue Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 That's just all kinds of disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Replacing my album version with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweden_Loves_GnR Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Use Your Delusion 1 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 That was odd the ad just came on the telly as I was reading this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Actually it means he authorized a company to license the songs out. A lot of artists do this when they don't want to be sitting around signing off on a ton of paperwork so some marching band wanting to record "Paradise City". In 20 years (or if they agree to end the contract early), he gets the rights back and would find someone else to handle it. The question is if Merck actually has to run it by him to agree or disagree.. commercials, he prob. ran it by Axl. He prob. heard John Lydon doing a butter commercial in England and they weren't using GNR music, so they were fine with it. Other than for the "filthy lucre" reason, Mr Rotten said that it was because British exports had been hard hit, and considers himself a "British export" as well.Axl no longer has control over how his music is used. He sold his publishing rights to Merc's company a couple of years ago. I think it was 20 million pounds for the next 15 years or so. Slash/Duff would still own their righst and would have had to agreewith the publishing company to sell PC for this ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Projectvox Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 Axl no longer has control over how his music is used. He sold his publishing rights to Merc's company a couple of years ago. I think it was 20 million pounds for the next 15 years or so. Slash/Duff would still own their righst and would have had to agreewith the publishing company to sell PC for this ad.Slash didn't know anything about it.I sent him a twitter message about it, and he kindly replied saying "I didn't know it'd been cleared. I'll be looking into it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseDemocracy2004 Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 That was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axl_morris Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 wow, I'm shocked by this...is this fan made or a real commercial? Never thought Axl would give up the rights to his music for ads...to my recollection he's never done that before.Hardley davidson with Better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henfjel Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 wow, I'm shocked by this...is this fan made or a real commercial? Never thought Axl would give up the rights to his music for ads...to my recollection he's never done that before.Hardley davidson with Better?that comercial was taken down because they didn't have the rights to use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_carston Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 you beat me to it, i was gonna put this up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFg72VvCqMgood to hear a buttery version of paradise city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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