Twitter Removes Trump Video After 'Electric Avenue' Singer Issues Copyright Complaint

[Norbert]

Twitter removed a video on Tuesday from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets after receiving a copyright complaint from singer Eddy Grant, whose hit song “Electric Avenue” played in the clip, NBC News reported.

Earlier in the day, Grant had filed a lawsuit against Trump and his campaign for using his song in the video ― an animated clip the president shared on Aug. 12 that took aim at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The rather perplexing video depicted a cartoon Biden driving an old-fashioned railroad handcar while a train bearing Trump’s campaign logo zipped through an empty town.

“Electric Avenue” — a 1983 song that Grant, a Guyanese-British singer, penned about the 1981 Brixton race riots in London — plays in the background. It’s not clear, however, what the song’s relevance is to the content of Trump’s video.

Grant said on his website last month that his legal team had issued a cease-and-desist letter to Trump and his campaign a day after the president posted the video...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/electric-avenue-eddy-grant-sues-trump-twitter_n_5f4eec84c5b6fea87461d961?utm_medium=facebook&ir=Entertainment&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000024&utm_source=entertainment_fb&fbclid=IwAR1F5N2N9GzEvuua-kc2hRSMjpTm5zzVS_FzOmklBy_AViaFQEnz57V4tJ4

[Silver1]

1. Good.

I hope Twitter keeps it up.

[HipChick]

2. Good on Eddy

[sfstaxprep]

3. A Cease & Desist Letter?

Drumpf ignores 10 of these before breakfast each day.

[mwooldri]

4. Artists certainly should file DMCA complaints.

Tech companies tend to respond to those quickly because if they don't, they're on the hook for copyright infringement too.

Happy to hear Eddy Grant is doing this.