“Can I be a head of state? Please? And why not, when you get cool gifts like the one Gov. Schwarzenegger gave to PM tony Blair: a 60 gb Ipod, black, natch, with a leather case — preloaded with songs about California,” Carla Marinucci blogs for The San Francisco Gate.
“The playlists include California pop tunes, San Francisco/Bay Area pop tunes, SF and California rock bands and ‘classical/Misc.’ Who put this all together? The state protocol office, headed by Charlotte Shultz. The IPod was inscribed: Presented to the Right Honorable Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California,” Marinucci reports.
Full article here.
Tony Blair is not the head of state in the UK the Queen is.
Probably the best argument for a constitutional monarchy is that the head of government does not get to be head of state. President Blair? Ugh!
Here’s a humorous picture of them
http://feedbackloops.blogspot.com/2006/08/riaa-targets-arnie-and-blair.html
So, how exactly did Arnold transfer the rights to each one of those individual songs to Blair?
This is what I hate about the DRM’d world.
Did he give him all the CDs on which those songs are to be found?
Find out if the P.M. had an iTunes account, and ask to be let inside it to do some shopping?
What?