FOO FIGHTERS Denounce DONALD TRUMP's Use Of 'My Hero' At Rally, Will Donate Any Royalties To KAMALA HARRIS Campaign
FOO FIGHTERS Denounce DONALD TRUMP's Use Of 'My Hero' At Rally, Will Donate Any Royalties To KAMALA HARRIS Campaign
FOO FIGHTERS have denounced the unauthorized use of their song "My Hero" at a Donald Trump rally on Friday (August 23). The former U.S. president introduced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the FOO FIGHTERS track at an Arizona campaign rally, just hours after the independent presidential candidate suspended...
looking at Dave Grohl walking by
There goes my hero! Watch him as he goes!
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Can’t they just use like Ted Nugent or something, he wouldn’t mind them using Cat Scratch Fever I’m sure.
They must have wanted a musician who sounds good.
And doesn't shit in his pants to dodge drafts.
kid rock :[
But not early white boy rapper with a flat top fade kid rock. They want afraid of rainbows trailer trash kid rock.
the could’ve sued him to stop…
They could, but unless they own their own catalogue and license the music in a way that lets them decide the context for its usage, the lawsuit probably wouldn't go anywhere.
Fun fact, the Foo fighters own all of their music. They're one of the few if only bands that actually do. The main reason is the fact that after Nirvana Dave grohl had fuck you money. This is one of the reasons why that band is so special. For them it is all about the music. It didn't start out as a struggle. All of their catalog is a passion project, and that's pretty cool.
That said, I doubt a lawsuit would really go anywhere.
There’s also something in copyright law called moral rights which can’t be transferred, although they can be waived. It’s possible to retain moral rights even if you sell your music to someone, and moral rights allow you assert some control over your works where you think misuse of it would cause harm to your reputation, amongst other things. I’m not a copyright lawyer or anything, but I’ve dealt with a bit of this stuff through open source software licensing, and it’s come up a few times when I was transferring licenses from companies I used to work for. If they didn’t waive moral rights then that would perhaps be an avenue to prevent misuse, but again, an actual copyright lawyer would be able to better determine that.
Edit to add: I did some reading on this and more rights are not quite a thing in the US, but it’s a thing in Canada and other Berne Convention countries, but the US does have something similar but separate from copyright. The US has moral rights in some states but not others, and they have something called the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 that intersects with the idea of moral rights but is more narrower than general moral rights and only covers certain visual arts. In any case, I still haven’t gotten my law degree since this morning, but the basic gist of it is that the US has a different spin on moral rights than I’m familiar with in Canada, so they’re not equivalent, but there still may be standing for such a move by a musical artist.
Dammit. You’re probably right, and I hate this situation.
They did this for McCains campaign also I believe. It all equates to nothing as one time public playing of a recording amounts to nearly nothing in royalties, and nobody magically decided they were/weren't voting for a candidate based on hearing Foo Fighters in the background.
As a sidenote, the Foo Fighters have probably 30+ songs that are better than "My Hero" so why is that one played so damn much?
Because 90% of people only recognize the chorus of most songs, or even just a few words from the chorus.
Republicans in particular have a history of using 'Born on the 4th of July' even though the entire song is very critical of American society. The chorus, alone, isolated from context, seems to be about patriotism though!
Similarly, My Hero has a chorus about My Hero, so when played near Trump, that means he is their hero. Don't think about the rest of the lyrics, they don't matter.
My Hero is their best song though.
Because of "Aim for the bushes"
Trump should just avoid playing any sort of rock music in general
I mean, there is still Kid Rock...
... who am I kidding, the RNC don't want to listen to Kid Rock.
They could send her some of that Amazon money if they really cared.
Anything Trump = downvote
Does Beehaw even have downvotes enabled? Blahaj doesn't. Because if so, you're* just "pissing into the wind" from a federation standpoint.
No downvote button for Beehaw. But, we have a block button, which due to who we are / aren’t federated with, I think I used twice in the last 10 months or so since I joined.
Truthfully, I haven’t really needed it. It’s pretty chill and people seem to have more reasonable discussions.
Sounds like my life on Lemmy! 🤣🥴
Nobody cares