When Don Henley sued Republican senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore in 2010, it marked the first time that a politician had been taken to court over a parody song. DeVore turned Henley's hit "The Boys of Summer" into a Barack Obama diss called "The Hope of November," and the rocker — a staunch Obama supporter — asked YouTube to take down the videos. DeVore not only asked that they be put back up, but he also made another video using Henley's "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" into "All She Wants to Do Is Tax." He defended his use of the songs by insisting that they were parodies, and therefore legal to use.
They ended up going to court, and a judge ruled that DeVore's versions of the songs did not mock the original songs or the songwriter, which did not make them parodies. DeVore settled the case and issued an apology to Henley.
