Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Harlem SHAKE


In the article Surprise Hit Was a Shock for Artist Heard on it by James C McKinley Jr. it talks about the man who made the hit song everyone is talking about all over and making videos for. Harry Rodrigues is the one who made the song and is getting money for it used other people’s voices in it without permission signed agreements or anything he just used it, but probably never thought that he would be sued for it. Now Hector Delgado and Jayson Musson are suing Rodrigues for it because he didn’t give them anything out it or any credit. The Harlem Shake has been at the top of the billboard 100pop chart for three weeks and sold about 800,000 digital downloads. That’s means he is making a good chunk of money and didn’t give the two men anything. I think they feel like he could’ve at least asked them for an approval or something, but to just take and use their music they two men probably feel disrespected.  Mr. Gomez the founder of Mad Decent says “Hector will get what he deserves.” What he is saying is that they want what they deserve they are saying they can just get lawyers and get them to stop the broadcasting of the song because his voice is in it anyway. I think what he is saying is he just wants his money otherwise they will just get the song stopped completely. Is this the right thing to do? I think so because he should’ve got consent from both men I don’t think Rodrigues was thinking at all.

1 comment:

  1. Instead of asking, is this the right thing to do, tell us whether you believe this is the right thing to do. Do you think these artists are entitled to money? It's not like they made the song popular. Need more of parts 3 and 4 of the blog post format. 75

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