This Is How The American People Are Kept In The dark By The Bureaucracy

[beckiefalwell]

Investors live in a totally different world than those who beg for money at stoplights.

Says the loser who can't buy shit. And retirement accounts are just piles of potatoes? They are investments. We get that you don't invest in the U.S. Not education, not infrastructure, not healthcare, etc.

 

[beckiefalwell]

And Walmart's on track for record highs means only you and your friends are losers.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/do...mart-on-track-for-record-high-close-data-talk

 

[HisArpy]

Says the loser who can't buy shit. And retirement accounts are just piles of potatoes? They are investments. We get that you don't invest in the U.S. Not education, not infrastructure, not healthcare, etc.

Ad Hom and projection.

Come back when you have more substance than nauseating vomit and bile filled hate.

 

[beckiefalwell]

Ad Hom and projection.

Come back when you have more substance than nauseating vomit and bile filled hate.

But no comment on Walmart?

 

[beckiefalwell]

Maybe you guys only shop at gas stations?

 

[beckiefalwell]

Ad Hom and projection.

Come back when you have more substance than nauseating vomit and bile filled hate.

Stop the steal.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-Hayes-granted-emergency-hearing-against-rump

 

[HisArpy]

But no comment on Walmart?

Don't shop there.

Unlike some.

 

[HisArpy]

Stop the steal.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-Hayes-granted-emergency-hearing-against-rump

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...o-fighters-my-hero-trump-rfk-jr-b2601348.html

Trump has a license to play copyrighted music at his rallies. Hayes' estate has no case.

 

[beckiefalwell]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...o-fighters-my-hero-trump-rfk-jr-b2601348.html

Trump has a license to play copyrighted music at his rallies. Hayes' estate has no case.

Hayes has a path. Also, Trump hasn't paid his bills. Let's see his receipt for paying the use fees.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/donald-trump-kamala-harris-campaign-music/3699719/

 

[beckiefalwell]

Just proves MAGAs make lousy music.

 

[beckiefalwell]

Neil Young should write "Living In A Shit World" for you guys. FWI, Truth Social is down again by over three percent. That's down about 56% in the last three months. What's his plan for the economy again?

 

[HisArpy]

Hayes has a path. Also, Trump hasn't paid his bills. Let's see his receipt for paying the use fees.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/donald-trump-kamala-harris-campaign-music/3699719/

How do you KNOW this?

Simple answer; you don't. You spew bullshit because you put your hopes into something that wasn't true and now you have to deflect or deny the truth - Trump has a license to play copyrighted music at his rallies.

Hayes' estate HAS NO CASE. Neither do any of the other artists who are whining about it. The only question which remains is whether the judge is politically biased or not and whether he allows any bias to guide his legal decision.

 

[YDB95]

Neil Young should write "Living In A Shit World" for you guys.

If I were him, I would write a song just for the Republicans to use. Then we could remind everyone how Young was - gasp! - an illegal immigrant.
Of course, the Republicans never seem to care about that border. I can't, for the life of me, imagine why...

 

[dkovic77]

So let’s get this straight… Orange Jesus wants to take guns from folks and worry about due process later…

(He didn’t say that!)

Now he wasn’t to put limits on the first amendment? We gotta limit it
(Oh that’s not what he meant)

Is this all a part of his getting rid of the constitution all together?
(He never said he would get rid of the constitution…wait he did???)

And folks just need to vote this time and they won’t have to vote again…

And those of you like to say none of this is alarming at all??? All because he’s “your guy”. Traitors all of you supporting this criminal.

 

[beckiefalwell]

How do you KNOW this?

Simple answer; you don't. You spew bullshit because you put your hopes into something that wasn't true and now you have to deflect or deny the truth - Trump has a license to play copyrighted music at his rallies.

Hayes' estate HAS NO CASE. Neither do any of the other artists who are whining about it. The only question which remains is whether the judge is politically biased or not and whether he allows any bias to guide his legal decision.

Excerpt from business insider talks about different licenses for different venues. I wouldn't think the Trump people bothered with with getting the right licenses. Let's see. I'll keep you posted.

Litman said that, typically, those licenses are obtained either by the venue or by the event from one of the performing-rights organizations, which represent the songwriters and their music publishers.

"Each songwriter belongs to a single PRO, so the Trump campaign would have needed to secure a license from the appropriate PRO," Litman said.


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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and Broadcast Music Inc. are among the major performing-rights organizations in the US.

In recent years, performing-rights organizations have typically required political campaigns to obtain a special license to use music at campaign events. At both ASCAP and BMI, members can request to withdraw their music from political-campaign licenses.

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"How it works is that the blanket license gives the campaign authorization to play any one of BMI's 22.4 million musical works wherever campaign events/functions occur, but there is a provision built into this license so that if we receive an objection from a songwriter or music publisher about a particular song(s) being used in a campaign, we will remove that song(s) from the license," Jodie Thomas, a spokesperson for BMI, said in an email.

"We will then notify the campaign that the song has been removed from their license and that they are no longer authorized by BMI to perform that song at any campaign events or functions moving forward," Thomas said.

According to Litman, ASCAP and BMI operate under antitrust consent decrees. Legal experts, she said, disagree about whether the consent decrees permit the organizations to selectively withdraw music from the licenses they offer.

BMI says removing a work from a campaign license when it receives an objection from a songwriter or music publisher is compliant with its consent decree.

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ASCAP did not immediately respond to a request for comment about this.

According to BMI, Trump's campaign has taken out a "political entities license" from BMI for his 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaigns.

ASCAP did not immediately provide details about whether Trump's campaign had obtained a license from the organization. Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Throngs of artists, from Rihanna to Elton John, have objected to Trump's use of their music​

Over the years, dozens of artists and bands, including Rihanna, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Elton John, and Pharrell Williams, have spoken out against Trump using their music at his events. Some have even formally sent cease-and-desist notices and threatened legal action.

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"If no license was obtained, the copyright owners in the songs can sue Trump, and they would win," Litman said.

Litman added that things could get complicated if the campaign did secure a license from one of the performing-rights organizations but it wasn't a license for political campaigns, or the artist had sought to exclude their works from the license but the campaign used the song anyway.

"That question has not yet been litigated," Litman said.

The singer Eddy Grant sued Trump, claiming copyright infringement, in 2020 after his 1982 hit "Electric Avenue" was used in a Trump-campaign tweet without the reggae-disco star's permission.

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"Sound-recording copyrights are usually owned by record labels, and one usually needs to negotiate directly with the relevant label to include a sound recording in any video, broadcast, or online post," Litman said, adding: "If the case goes to trial, I would expect Grant to win."

Isaac Hayes' family wants Trump to pay up​

James Walker Jr., an attorney for the estate of Hayes, the R&B legend, told BI Hayes' music was licensed through BMI and that the Hayes estate had told BMI that the Hayes catalog was not to be used for political events.

Trump's campaign has used Hayes' music at the former president's rallies more than 100 times and as recently as Saturday, Walker said.

Thomas, the spokesperson for BMI, confirmed to BI that the organization was "executing on the estate's withdrawal request."

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The Hayes estate complained publicly and to the Trump campaign in 2022 when "Hold On, I'm Coming" was used during Trump's appearance at a National Rifle Association convention a week after the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. Since then, the 1966 track has been used many more times at events, Walker said.

Walker, a 30-year entertainment-copyright lawyer, said the Hayes family hired him "after getting no response" from the Trump campaign for two years.

In addition to getting Trump's campaign to stop using "Hold On, I'm Coming" at rallies, the Hayes estate is seeking the removal of all Trump-event videos featuring the song, plus $3 million, an amount Walker said was "peanuts compared to what they should be paying."

"We don't want this to be seen as a money grab, but we've had to get research teams involved in tracking down all the uses," the attorney said. "That's a lot of manpower."

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Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment about the use of Hayes' music or about its practices when it comes to obtaining licenses for the copyrighted music it plays at events and rallies.