Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s running for the Senate, pulled a David Byrne song from campaign commercials after the Talking Heads frontman complained. The ads were using the band’s 1985 hit “Road to Nowhere.” The rocker wrote on his Web site: “If Crist and his campaign folks had asked to use the song, I would have said no — even if they had offered a lot of money, such as I have been offered in the past for ad use (though I’ve always turned these offers down) . . . So, my lawyers and I have filed a lawsuit — and we also hope the Republicans might not engage (again) in this kind of illegal behavior in the future.” The suit in federal court in Tampa seeks $1 million in damages for copyright infringement and false endorsement. A spokeswoman for Crist tells Page Six, “We’ve stopped using the song and the ad has been taken down. We have no further comment.”
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist pulls song from ads after suit
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PageSix.com Staff
Published
May 27, 2010, 4:00 a.m. ET