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(credit LAist.com) The Los Angeles Times is currently running a great article about the relations between pop music and the licensing that turns the songs into nothing more than jingles , remembered just as much for the products they push as for the ethos they embody. Chris Lee writes: "Tasteless!" ran a headline in TheDailySwarm.com, the website that broke the story. (The images were licensed for use in the UK through Corbis, the original photos' supplier, apparently without permission from the musicians' estates.) Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, lamented the "despicable use" [...]