Okkervil River Responds to Don Henley: Copyright Laws Kill Art — rollingstone.com

I woke to the news that Don Henley was "not impressed" with me. OK, well, he technically wasn't impressed with a cover of one of his songs that I'd recorded and given away for free on a release called Golden Opportunities 3 – in fact he was angry with me and he wanted me to take it down. Golden Opportunities is a cover series my band Okkervil River has been doing for several years now and… I just realized it sounds like I'm plugging it but actually there's nothing to plug because Henley's lawyers made me remove the song I'd planned as the big final capping moment – a cover of "The End of the Innocence" – when Henley took umbrage.

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