Very Occasionally Attorneys Have a Sense of Humor

[gator1946]

A cease and desist order to Bill Murray. From the Doobie Brothers Attorney Paterno, one of music’s most powerful lawyers:

“It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts. However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given’ .
We understand that you’re running other ads using music from other of our clients. It seems like the only person who uses our clients’ music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump.

This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies. And you already know you can’t use music in ads without paying for it.

We’d almost be OK with it if the shirts weren’t so damn ugly. But it is what it is.”

The bolded part cracked me up.

 

[Detroitgator]

A cease and desist order to Bill Murray. From the Doobie Brothers Attorney Paterno, one of music’s most powerful lawyers:

“It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts. However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given’ .
We understand that you’re running other ads using music from other of our clients. It seems like the only person who uses our clients’ music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump.

This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies. And you already know you can’t use music in ads without paying for it.

We’d almost be OK with it if the shirts weren’t so damn ugly. But it is what it is.”

The bolded part cracked me up.

That is good... Here's why I hate lawyers... my good one left the firm I use to be in-house counsel for a big financial software company in Jax. We're still friends, but fuk that guy... and all of them! ;)

 

[Gatordiddy]

A cease and desist order to Bill Murray. From the Doobie Brothers Attorney Paterno, one of music’s most powerful lawyers:

“It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts. However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given’ .
We understand that you’re running other ads using music from other of our clients. It seems like the only person who uses our clients’ music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump.

This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies. And you already know you can’t use music in ads without paying for it.

We’d almost be OK with it if the shirts weren’t so damn ugly. But it is what it is.”

The bolded part cracked me up.

lol...it's true:

Bill Murray Faces Legal Threat From Doobie Brothers

 

[CDGator]

 

[gator1946]

I belly laughed at the bolded part, because while it is funny, it is also a window into the soul of those guys. excoriate ...eternal damnation...didn't come out of nowhere.