Drug Dealers and Legalists
Hey, check it out! Here’s an interesting note I got from Steppenwolf:
Your video “Blind Guides!” has been identified by YouTube’s Content Identification program as containing copyrighted content which UMG claims is theirs.
Your video “Blind Guides!” is still available because UMG does not object to this content appearing on YouTube at this time.
The video? Watch for yourself! It’s a take-off on Paul’s words in Galatians 1:9 — “As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!” And “accursed” is, to be precise, “God-damn”.
(Used in my Galatians 1 podcast.)
- Dawkins Gets Angry
- The Tragedy and Beauty of Love
You didn’t actually get that note from Steppenwolf, you got it from UMG, or Universal Music Group, which owns the rights to that particular Steppenwolf song. I wonder why they’re being so gracious as to let you use “their” song.
Sadly, even if the boys in Steppenwolf gave you permission to use that song, the final say would rest with UMG, which apparently owns the rights.
Well Joe, you just don’t know if Steppenwolf agreed or not. I think they did, because they loved the message.