Posted on 08/12/2024 6:46:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump has been ordered to stop to playing the late soul singer Isaac Hayes song Hold On, I’m Coming at his campaign rallies.
A letter sent to Trump and his team by the musician and actor’s surviving family members, and shared by Hayes’ son on social media, threatens to sue Trump if he does not comply by 16 August.
Hayes’ attorneys note in the letter that $3 million requested as compensation for previous use is “a very discounted fee” from the usual rate of $150,000 per use of the song, which based on the number of times Hold On has allegedly been used by the campaign, would lead to a total that “will be 10 times as much if we litigate.”
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Doesn’t work like that. The singer is paid by one of a couple of companies for the public use rights. That is to play in elevators, as bumper music, in the restaurant or barber shop. If the politician, barber, or restauranteur has paid the fee to that company, everything in their songbook is fair game. The artist can no longer pick and choose and neither can the service if it was in their catalogue. They have no case.
But thanks for playing.
Racist freeloaders, give it back it wasnt worth it
Correct. If sold to a company the royalties go to the company owning the right, which is what I said.
The Harris campaign can use your property for signs or billboards without permission or payment then?
For a quick pick me up!
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