■ 14 October 2008 | 5:27 PM
Out of tune?
Sheryl Crow weighed in on the mayoral campaign by asking that she be taken out of it.
Crow’s attorney on Friday asked Will Sessoms, who is running for mayor, to remove the song “A change would do you good” from a video on his MySpace page.
The Sessoms campaign did not have license to use the track, said Jay Cooper, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig, who represents Crow.
“It was used without permission, and no artist out there likes to have their stuff used without permission,” Cooper said.
The Sessoms campaign responded quickly and removed the song, Cooper said.
Crow’s reps were tipped about the song slip-up by officials with REX Motion Media, the company working for Mayor Meyera Oberndorf.
“We just want to protect an artist’s intellectual property,” said Norvell Rose, the president of Rex Motion Media. “We’re trying to keep the game honest.”
The two camps had a Web site tiff this past summer.
In July, Oberndorf was asked by officials with the Sessoms’ campaign to take Will Sessoms’ name off her Web site’s list of friends. At the time, Roger Oberndorf, the mayor’s husband, said the site was from the previous election campaign, when the two were chums. Oberndorf’s site has since been revamped.
As far as the Crow song goes, Sessoms said his campaign removed it on Friday night.
The campaign doesn’t want to do anything illegal, Sessoms said before a candidate forum on Saturday.
And for the record, he likes Crow’s music.
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Meyera fire the REX team and get back to basics
I guess Meyera didn't learn from the Amerigroup comment or the whole website friends issue. Does she really believe Norvell Rose and team of so-called “creative geniuses” (I say that sarcastically) are helping her by doing tipping off Sheryl Crows’ legal team. Can they not promote Meyera well enough that they have to stoop this low? How can he say that he’s trying to protect that artist’s intellectual property – do they even know what that means. From the Meyera videos, I think not. From the poor quality commercials – stop the mediocrity! Meyera - get back to basics if you want to win because this REX team is hurting your image and your campaign.
What about Converse?
Do the folks at Converse know that their red High-Tops are being used as a campaign stunt by Oberndorf? Then again, the rules may only apply to usages that actually improve a candidate’s chances. Still, the thing is dumb enough that Converse may wish to be left out of it.