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| Headline | Did Paul pay royalties to use Graceland name? |
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Bodo
Jan-07-2011, 12:22 GMT
Austria
 | Strange question I guess.
Well, a Elvis fan in Denmark built his own Graceland replica and museum, and now the Elvis beneficarys try to stop this project. They say the name ´Graceland´ is a trademark, and the Elvis family owns the right on that name.
Well, also Paul used the name Graceland for his album...so maybe like Kodachrome the next edition of Graceland has a (R) next to the name?
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Cher
Jan-10-2011, 20:53 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I never heard of Graceland the song until 2008. I remember being at Graceland earlier and thinking Elvis
must have sung the song, but they couldn´t find it there as I knew he
recorded at least one album in his
home. I don´t think Paul ever went
there as far as I know. |
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Brenda
Jan-10-2011, 22:27 GMT
Australia
 | I remember him saying ,in a few interviews, he did go to visit Graceland ,but on his own ,not with Harper ,as in the lyrics. |
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kris
Jan-11-2011, 02:56 GMT
Denmark
 | he did visit Graceland. he wanted to see if there actually was any connection between the song and the place, and there wasn´t. |
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Klausi
Jan-11-2011, 08:56 GMT
Germany
 | Google says Graceland is a trademark for cloth patches etc., Registration No. 2091289, owner Elvis Presley Enterprises, registered on September 23, 1996.
One should expect that Simon`s song and album are (and remain) free from any royalty, because used earlier (guess Paul had checked that!).
There are also restaurants in several places where I cannot see what connection to Elvis.
Kodachrome certainly was registered before 1973. |
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Bodo
Jan-11-2011, 10:06 GMT
Austria
| I know a shoe-brand named Graceland. Not sure if that one is international or only in Austria/Germany
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Klausi
Jan-11-2011, 14:55 GMT
Germany
| When first recording for Columbia Paul Simon certainly knew more about Copyright etc. than most of his colleagues. But he wasn`t famous and recording a Bob Dylan song was ok, for Columbia as well!
In 1968 after the Graduate Wednesday morning finally went Gold and Mr. Zimmermann and some others had unexpected profit.
The opposite was true for BOTW. It was a sure multi-million-seller and recording Bye, Bye Love was a great gift for the composers.
Graceland was almost an expected flop, 3 years after a real flop. WB had made their worst deal signing Paul Simon up to then. But numbers got serious again... |
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