{"id":17235,"date":"2026-02-03T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/minions-copyright-decision-drives-spanish-olympic-figure-skater-well-bananas\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:49:05","slug":"minions-copyright-decision-drives-spanish-olympic-figure-skater-well-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/minions-copyright-decision-drives-spanish-olympic-figure-skater-well-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Minions copyright decision drives Spanish Olympic figure skater, well, bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Spanish figure skater Tom\u00e0s-Lloren\u00e7 Guarino Sabat\u00e9 might not speak Minion, but if he did, he might have plenty to say.<\/p>\n<p>With only days before the start of competition at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Guarino Sabat\u00e9 was informed that, because of copyright issues, he will not be able to perform his routines to the Minions music mix he has been using throughout the 2025-26 season. He has also done his routines in an outfit reminiscent of the movie characters: a yellow T-shirt and blue overalls.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Pictures, which owns the subsidiary Illumination, which in turn owns the Minions franchise, told Guarino Sabat\u00e9 he cannot use the music. In an Instagram post, the skater said he \u201cfollowed all due procedures and submitted my music through the ISU ClicknClear system in August, and competed with this program for the entire season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Guarino Sabat\u00e9 was told Friday \u2014 one week before the start of the skating competition \u2014 that he did not have permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding out about this last Friday, so close to the most important competition of my life, was incredibly disappointing,\u201d Guarino Sabat\u00e9 posted. \u201cNevertheless, I will face this challenge head on and do my best to make the best of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my fans: I wish I had better news, but I am deeply grateful for your support this season. I promise to go out on the ice giving everything I\u2019ve got and present shows that both you and I can be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guarino Sabat\u00e9, who has won the Spanish national championship six times, has only a few days to find new music and sync it to the two routines \u2014 short program and free skate \u2014 that he will do at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the International Skating Union said: \u201cCopyright clearances can represent a challenge for all artistic sports. While the ISU does not have a contractual relationship with ClicknClear, we continue to work collaboratively with rights clearance stakeholders to ensure that thrilling performances can be accompanied by stirring music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ISU said it was looking into the situation.<\/p>\n<p>ClicknClear is a \u201cmusic rights tech company delivering officially licensed music to choreographed sports athletes\/teams and performing arts ensembles that use music in their routines worldwide,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish figure skater Tom\u00e0s-Lloren\u00e7 Guarino Sabat\u00e9 might not speak Minion, but if he did, he might have plenty to say. With only days before the start of competition at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Guarino Sabat\u00e9 was informed that, because of copyright issues, he will not be able to perform his routines to the Minions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26016348540956-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}