DamnYankee
Loyal to the end
Rush pays for his bumper music every time he plays it. I forget who the artist is but she's a lefty, takes his check and signs it over to lefty causes. Rush says without him these causes would probably go bankrupt. 

Again, it would depend on how much of the song was used. Let's say, there was this leftist band that sang a song played on Rush Limbaugh's show (BTW, there is), so long as he played only a portion of the song he could continue to use it as his bumper music without having to pay royalties. The same would be true for Michelle. It depends on how much of the song she used.
In this case it is likely that Tom has the right to tell her to quit using his song, especially if she used more than a small portion of the song at introduction, however it isn't an absolute right, it depends on exactly how much of the song is used.
You'll see this in usage on American Idol often, they'll allow their singers to sing only a portion of a song, and they know exactly how much can be used without permission, believe me. When a full song is used they need to get permission, they usually refuse to pay for that until near the end of the show... Hence you'll get portions played, but not full songs unless it is from a list of "free use" songs where the copyright is free, until the show reaches the point where the audience is voting and where they deem it worth the cost to pay the royalties.
Well I ain’t never been the barbie doll type
No I can’t swig that sweet champagne,
I’d rather drink beer all night
In a tavern or in a honky tonk or on a
4 wheel drive tailgate
I’ve got posters on my wall of Skynard,
Kid and Strait
Some people look down on me but I don’t
give a rip
I’ll stand barefooted in my own front yard
with a baby on my hip
Cause I’m a redneck woman
And I ain’t no high class broad
I’m just a product of my raisin’
And I say “hey y’all” and “Yee Haw”
And I keep my Christmas lights on, on my front porch all year long
And I know all the words to every Charlie Daniels song
So here’s to all my sisters out there keepin’ it country
Let me get a big “Hell Yeah” from the redneck girls like me
Hell Yeah
Hell Yeah
Victoria’s Secret, well their stuff’s real nice
Oh but I can buy the same damn thing on a Wal*Mart shelf half price
And still look sexy, just as sexy as those models on TV
No I don’t need no designer tag to make my man want me
You might think I’m trashy, A little too hard core
But in my neck of the woods I’m just the girl next door...
what authority mentions that it is only a matter of how much the song is used?
Hey I have a copy write on that.
Rush pays for his bumper music every time he plays it. I forget who the artist is but she's a lefty, takes his check and signs it over to lefty causes. Rush says without him these causes would probably go bankrupt.![]()
It's possible, Rush plays more of the song than most radio shows do. However, not all radio shows pay royalties to play bumper music, and they are able to do that because they play only a portion and aren't using the song itself to make money.
I think you are stretching the bounds of fair use beyond their limits by claiming that radio broadcaster of music for needle drops/bumper music are fair use. It seems to me that radio broadcasting is a commercial purpose and that introductory music/needle drops/bumper music are the use of copyrighted works for commercial purposes such that fair use probably does not apply, however short the snippet is.