Editing Creedence Clearwater Revival (section)

==Legal rights==
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CCR's catalog of songs has frequently been used or referenced in popular culture, partly because John Fogerty signed away legal control of his old recordings to the band's record label, Fantasy Records.<ref name=aintme>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Fogerty-to-Wrangler-Song-in-ad-ain-t-me-2757730.php|title=Fogerty to Wrangler: Song in ad 'ain't me' – SFGate|publisher=Articles.sfgate.com|date=November 1, 2002|access-date=March 26, 2010|first=Bob|last=Baker}}</ref><ref name=lat02>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/219869391.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+23%2C+2002&author=Bob+Baker&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=E.2|title=Their 'Son' was Fogerty's baby; The last thing the singer wants is a Creedence corporate revival, but he doesn't own the rights, so 'Fortunate Son' now sells jeans|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 23, 2002|access-date=March 29, 2010|first=Bob|last=Baker|archive-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209014109/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/219869391.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+23%2C+2002&author=Bob+Baker&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=E.2|url-status=dead}}</ref> In an [[NPR]] interview, Fogerty objected to what he regarded as a misuse of his music:

{{blockquote|Folks will remember ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' and that was a great movie, but they don't remember all the really poor movies that Fantasy Records stuck Creedence music into: car commercials, tire commercials. I'm remembering a [[paint thinner]] ad at one point, the song "[[Who'll Stop the Rain (song)|Who'll Stop the Rain]]." Oh, boy. That's clever, isn't it?<ref>{{cite web|last=Fogerty|first=John|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5055071|title=John Fogerty Travels 'The Long Road Home'|publisher=NPR|date=December 16, 2005|access-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}

Of particular interest was the use of his protest song "Fortunate Son" in a [[blue jeans]] commercial.<ref name=aintme/> In this case, the advertiser eventually stopped using the song, as Fogerty related in a later interview:

{{blockquote|Yes, the people that owned Fantasy Records also owned all my early songs, and they would do all kinds of stuff I really hated in a commercial way with my songs. Then one day somebody from the ''[[Los Angeles Times|L.A. Times]]'' actually bothered to call me up and ask me how I felt, and I finally had a chance to talk about it. And I said I'm very much against my song being used to sell pants. So my position got stated very well in the newspaper, and lo and behold, [[Wrangler (jeans)|Wrangler]] to their credit said, "Wow, even though we made our agreement with the publisher, the owner of the song, we can see now that John Fogerty really hates the idea," so they stopped doing it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spinner.com/2007/10/05/john-fogerty-experiences-a-musical-and-personal-revival/ |title=John Fogerty Experiences a Musical and Personal 'Revival' |publisher=Spinner |date=October 5, 2007 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512091925/http://www.spinner.com/2007/10/05/john-fogerty-experiences-a-musical-and-personal-revival/ |archive-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref>}}