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Old 09-18-2005, 04:11 PM  
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Originally Posted by Shoehorn
Back in the early 80s Iron Maiden released the album "Piece of Mind," on the album was a song that Steve Harris wrote that was based on a book by Frank Herbert. The song was going to be called "Dune" after the book, but Frank Herbert decided that he hated metal music and that if Iron Maiden called the song "Dune" then he would sue them and stop the album from coming out and doing everything else he could to cost them money and fuck them up. If you look on that album now, they ended up calling the song "To Tame A Land."

The moral of this story - if an author can sue a band for titling a song after his book then it seems to me that an author can sure as fuck sue for having the book shown in a porn shoot.
Close, but very different situations and if Iron Maiden did not back down like pussies they would have gottin more publicity and had Artistic merit in expressing there creative works and titling it the way they may have originally wanted!

80's Copyright Law would have found them free as a bird to title it anyway they chose.

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