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What are your thoughts on The Rolling Stones (amongst other music artists) requesting that Trump to stop using their music?

Asked by NerdyKeith (5489points) May 4th, 2016

Trump has played songs like ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ and ‘Start Me Up’ during his rallies. However politicians don’t need an artist’s permission to use their music at rallies as long as their party has a blanket license, which covers all of the music in the group’s catalogue.

This brings up an interesting dilemma. Should music copyright laws be refined to prevent the usage of music without the express permission of the artists in cases such as this?

Source: NME

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