Posted on 08/22/2018 8:47:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rock legend Steven Tyler has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the White House demanding that President Trump stop playing Aerosmith songs at his rallies.
Tyler’s attorney, Dina LaPolt, sent the letter after Trump’s Tuesday night rally in West Virginia, as first reported by Variety. The band’s “Livin’ on the Edge” played as Trump supporters entered the Charleston Civic Center.
LaPolt’s letter, a copy of which was obtained by Variety, notes that Trump was previously asked to stop using Aerosmith songs twice during his campaign.
“Mr. Trump is creating the false impression that our client has given his consent for the use of his music, and even that he endorses the presidency of Mr. Trump,” the letter reads.
LaPolt writes that Aerosmith fans have mistakenly believed that Tyler endorses Trump’s presidency and expressed as much on social media, and says that Trump’s use of the song is a violation of the Lanham Act.
LaPolt said in the first two cease-and-desist letters, which were related to Trump’s use of “Dream On,” that the issue was neither personal nor political, but an issue of copyright. Tyler is a registered Republican.
Trump said in 2015 that he had found a “better” song to play instead of “Dream On,” and boasted that the scandal gave Tyler “more publicity … than he’s gotten in 10 years.”
A number of musical artists have requested that Trump not play their songs at public events, including R.E.M., Twisted Sister and Elton John.
Yes..............
Hear we go again. It’s election time. The faggots and maggots come crawling out from under the rocks whining about people playing the garbage they call music.
Sorry, Steve, but you can't always get what you want.
Shove it Tyler. He will pay the fee.
Are you still getting royalites from your music? Then stfu stevie.
Trump should reply: Dream On.
Aeroheads.
Your music is a gay wedding cake.
Well that explains why he and Joe Perry were the two Grannies sitting in the front row at the Music Video Awards.
I’m sorry Steve, you look worse than Keith Richards.
5.56mm
Ok by me. I never liked the music of that Mick Jagger wannabe.
Go fk urself Steve.
Bake the damn cake, Boston boy.
They are tgat band that came back from the dead in the 80s because a rap group covered their song.
I’ll stop playing Aerosmith songs, Steven.
This guy looks like one of those dehydrated mummies they find in caves.
Versions of this sentence need posted in every sort of social media, and on and on and on.
Artists wanna be artists, until their art becomes part of the culture. Then they decide it needs controlled.
63 million Trump Supporters demand that Steven Tyler learn how to sing and get a face transplant.
Here’s a little something about Steven Tyler that you probably don’t know:
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