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  Top ten political thefts of music
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ContributorThomas Walker 
Last EditedThomas Walker  Jun 07, 2010 07:19pm
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AuthorJef Otte
News DateTuesday, June 8, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionThere's a certain political group that pays a lot of lip service to individual property rights -- raise your hand if this sounds familiar: Lower taxes, gun ownership, capitalism! As it turns out, there seems to be one aspect of individual property that certain group does not seem to respect: intellectual property.

With campaign season ramping up, politicians are appropriating songs to spread their message, and for a lot of them, "appropriating" means "stealing." Not all of them sport an "R" next to their name, but, well, most of them do. Here's our top ten of artist-politician faceoffs.

10. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky, U.S. Senate candidate) v. Rush Rush was not feeling the spirit of Rand Paul's Senate run when the band sent a cease-and-desist letter to Paul for his use of "Spirit of Radio" in an online campaign ad. Paul might get some kudos for diverging some from the classic-rock hit-parade (most don't), but when he dismissed the order as trivial and said the song amounted to "background music," he most likely didn't ingratiate himself much with the band.
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