The Rolling Stones are exercising their rights to exclude their music from Trump’s political events…
The legendary Rolling Stones, have asked Donald Trump to stop playing their music throughout his presidential campaign, according to a report by TIME. Trump, who is music enthusiast, has played several of the bands songs, including “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Brown Sugar.”
Yesterday, (May 4th) a spokesperson for The Rolling Stones released a statement, which reads…
“The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately.”
Though it is not a requirement for permission to be obtained by artists to play their songs at political campaigns, it is essential for the venue or political organisation to have a license from ASCAP and BMI – the performing rights organisations. This is requirement which I am sure Trump fulfils.
However, artists have some rights in the sense that there are provisions in some licenses which gives a songwriter or publisher the right to exclude their songs from a license obtained by a venue or political party, for example.
There are obvious reasons as to why The Rolling Stones do not want their music associated with the New York Politician, who has been dubbed as a racist and sexist, amongst many other things.
It will be interesting to see if they can stop the Republican from playing their music or whether this turns into a battle.
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