Donald Trump loses Electric Avenue legal fight with Eddy Grant

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Donald Trump loses Electric Avenue legal ****** with Eddy Grant

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Eddy Grant’s legal battle with the former President began in 2020

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.

It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the *********** 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

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, 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, before his election to the White House, when 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

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video was shielded under copyright’s fair use doctrine, which allows for the use of protected works in certain situations.

Brian D. Caplan, Mr Grant’s attorney, told

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: “As a staunch believer of artist’s rights and the ability to control their creative output, Mr. Grant believes that the decision will help others in their ****** against the unauthorized use of sound recordings and musical compositions.

“Politicians are not above the law and the court reaffirmed that.”

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Eddy Grant was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1984 for Electric Avenue

Brixton riots

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, in response to a lawsuit from the family of the song’s co-writer, Isaac Hayes.

Dozens of other artists have objected to the use of their songs at Trump rallies in recent months including Abba, Foo Fighters, Celine Dion and Johnny Marr.

Electric Avenue takes its name from the south London road in Brixton, the first market street in the capital to be lit by electricity. It still forms part of Brixton Market today.

It inspired the title of Mr Grant’s song, written as a response to the 1981 Brixton riots, which reached number two in the charts in both the *** and the US.

Mr Trump’s team has been approached for comment about the Electric Avenue court case.

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