Monday, September 16, 2024

Trump Loses Electric Avenue Song Legal Fight

Former US President Donald Trump has been found liable to pay damages to London singer and songwriter Eddy Grant for using his song Electric Avenue without permission.

Posted by LampLighter at 09:33 AM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

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... It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the Republican candidate in this year's presidential election in the US courts, over his 2020 campaign video that used a 40-second clip of the song.

The video was viewed 13.7 million times before Twitter, now known as X, took it down.

A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Mr Trump breached Mr Grant's copyright for his 1983 hit, and is now liable for damages as well as paying for the singer's legal fees.
Cease and desist

Mr Grant's battle with the former President began in August 2020, when he was seeking re-election to the White House. The songwriter's counsel, Wallace E.J. Collins, issued a cease and desist letter to Donald Trump's campaign team.

On Friday, Judge John G. Koeltl rejected arguments from Mr Trump's lawyers that the Twitter video was shielded under copyright's fair use doctrine, which allows for the use of protected works in certain situations. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-16 02:18 AM

 

So, the "law and order" candidate still appears to be breaking the law.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-16 02:19 AM

Trump's hatefest rally playlist looks like it's gonna be whittled down to "Yankee Doodle," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat,," and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-16 05:33 AM

Republicl0wns have this knack for making themselves look dated and past their primes... over and over...

sooooooo... it's back to "Happy Days are Here Again" for the cl0wnbrigade... which was what they were playing at their conventions while Bill Clinton became the first "Rock and Roll President"... come to think of it... Clinton threw the last cl0wn geezer's voodoo economics protege' out of office... ironically... Bushturd-1...the man he defeated later endorsed Clinton's wife when she ran for president...

The Cl0wnbrigade was merciless to her as First Lady...in fact going after Monica Lewinsky was more of an attack on her... to get even with her for having the nerve to wear a "pantsuit" for a Barbara Walters interview... they were always attacking her as a woman... trying to make her appear as a failure as a wife.

and Trumpanzee thinks he da man... PFFFFTTTTTT. Trumpanzees flying monkeys are all the men whose wives he insulted and ridiculed... which about sums it up for the republicl0wns as a collective.

The party of self-owning...

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-09-16 10:24 AM

"Trump has been found liable to pay damages..."

Good luck collecting that debt, he'll never pay it.

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-16 11:03 AM

QCP

You're right!

Unless there was a court order to cough up the money within a certain period of time, Mr. Grant, the songwriter, will have nothing but a piece of paper to hang on his wall.

Poor Judge Koeltl will now have to worry about death threats and fire bombs.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-16 11:23 AM

The DJ crew at the Trump-Vance campaign should roll out Ted Nugent's "Jailbait" at the next umpteen rallies. Toes will be tappin', heads bobbin', and minds wonderin'...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-16 03:07 PM

Why doesn't he play some Ted Nugent? You know, "Wang Dang Sweet --------" or one of the guys other well known 1970s songs. He has old Ted and Kid Rock, that's about it. He would use their music but it is so bad he wants to steal from others (always his MO, steal, cheat and lie).

#8 | Posted by NOTGOINGBACK at 2024-09-16 05:44 PM

I prefer the Howard Stern spoof of the song for Trump:

"electrocute the fool"................

#9 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-09-16 06:44 PM

Good for Eddy sticking up for his music not to be used and abused by that orange pig traitor.

#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-09-16 09:54 PM

So, the "law and order" candidate still appears to be breaking the law.


"I am above the law. I have absolute immunity. John Roberts told me so."

- Sh*tler

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-17 07:02 AM

Why doesn't he play some Ted Nugent?

I'm chiaci had to have tried to extend his 15 minutes with a cover of some sort of pop hit done badly

rateyourmusic.com

"yerblues Sep 18 2008 1.00 stars
This is Happy Days alum Scott Baio's lesser known second album. Baio, surprisingly, has a decent rock voice, in the vein of another one-time television star, Rick Springfield. The Boys Are Out Tonight gets off to a passable start with "I'll Take You Back" and "Fingerprints," which strive for a Bruce Springsteen sound circa The River. But it quickly descends, predictably, into dullness, as Baio's crack team of 80s studio professionals trod out musical cliche after musical cliche (see especially the two weak covers of The Dave Clark Five's "Can't You See that She's Mine" and Johnny Kidd's "Shakin' All Over" that lead off Side Two), including an over-infusion of corny keyboard effects. What I don't understand is how Scott Baio got to produce a second album. Either he had a two-record deal with RCA from the outset, or the forces of market-capitalism necessitated it."

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-17 07:06 AM

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