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Singer Isaac Hayes’ Family Threatens to Sue Trump for Millions over Rally Song Use
Breitbart ^ | 08/12/2024 | Simon Kent

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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KEYWORDS: family; hayes; sue; trump
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I bet this grifting family would not sue Harris if she did the same thing..
1 posted on 08/12/2024 6:46:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they hold the rights to the songs ?


2 posted on 08/12/2024 6:49:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is so laughable,, that all these singers who license their music for public use,,protest about Trump using their music.

There’s probably some virtue signaling going on here the singers want to make it clear that they would never support Trump.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 6:49:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The family must love the way Democrats enslaved Blacks over the decades with their welfare programs that created the ghetto and hopelessness.


4 posted on 08/12/2024 6:49:21 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fair use; every radio station already uses bumper songs. Did they release a perfect, complete version on the rally video with no crowd sounds or announcers? That would be bad.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 6:49:59 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This happens every four years. The question I have is whether the campaigns pay the license fee to use the song or not. If they do, screw Hayes and his family. If they use it in violation of license laws, then they are stupid because they should know that any Republican using any song is going to get this blowback.


6 posted on 08/12/2024 6:50:03 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They can go suck on Chef’s Salty Chocolate Balls.


7 posted on 08/12/2024 6:50:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is where the GOP can go go bat for our President.. Speak out.. Don’t sit on your rear and say nothing.

They have taken a political stand.. Make it bite!


8 posted on 08/12/2024 6:50:37 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie ( N)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t there a BMI or ASCAP rate? David Porter, who co-wrote the song, is still alive. What does he say?


9 posted on 08/12/2024 6:51:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They didn’t get enough royalties from his “Chocolate Salty Balls?”


10 posted on 08/12/2024 6:51:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yup. Looking for a payout. It’s a double win. It puts the song back in the spotlight and they get a possible settlement for a copyright infringement.


11 posted on 08/12/2024 6:52:01 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At the end of the rallies POTUS could use We Are The Champions.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 6:53:05 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: From The Deer Stand; Dilbert San Diego

In all the other cases, they have said they just don’t want Trump (Or other Republicans) using a song. In this case, the family does not say they don’t want him using the song. So, I’m not sure about your conclusion.


13 posted on 08/12/2024 6:53:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

At least Chrissie Hynde let Rush use “My City Was Gone”.


14 posted on 08/12/2024 6:54:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who’s the black private dick
That’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft!)
Ya damn right!
Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft!)
Can ya dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about?
(Shaft!)
Right on!
You see this cat, Shaft is a bad motha-
(Shut your mouth!)
But I’m talkin’ about Shaft!
(Then we can dig it!)
He’s a complicated man,
But no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft!)


15 posted on 08/12/2024 6:55:11 AM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: butlerweave

My question exactly. Many times they do not.


16 posted on 08/12/2024 6:56:19 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY


17 posted on 08/12/2024 6:56:46 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: nickcarraway

From the article:

“In their legal missive, the family of Isaac Hayes claimed to have “asked repeatedly” for Trump to stop using the song.”


18 posted on 08/12/2024 6:56:50 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hayes family has already showed their ass fighting over his estate


19 posted on 08/12/2024 6:57:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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To: Yogafist

Okay, I miss that, but then why are they giving him an allegedly discounted rate? And what does the living writer of the song say?


20 posted on 08/12/2024 6:58:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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