{"id":30366,"date":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddy-grant-wins-legal-fight-against-donald-trump-over-electric-avenue-use\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","slug":"eddy-grant-wins-legal-fight-against-donald-trump-over-electric-avenue-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddy-grant-wins-legal-fight-against-donald-trump-over-electric-avenue-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddy Grant wins legal fight against Donald Trump over \u201cElectric Avenue\u201d use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-16\/Getty_EddyGrant_091624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Joseph Okpako\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has been ordered to pay damages to singer <strong>Eddy Grant<\/strong> over his use of Grant\u2019s 1983 hit \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yxep-9BQ6Uo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Electric Avenue<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u201d during the 2020 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Grant\u2019s lawyers initially sent the Trump campaign a cease-and-desist letter over the use of a short clip of the song in an animated video that was created by a third party and shared on Trump\u2019s personal social media account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Grant later sued, arguing the clip suggested an endorsement of Trump and also &#8220;sought to denigrate the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nominee, now-President<strong> Joseph R. Biden<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After four years, a judge in New York has granted the singer a partial summary judgement, meaning Trump is liable for copyright infringement and will now have to pay Grant for damages, as well as his legal fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The legal judgement comes just weeks after a judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the former president from playing <strong>Isaac Hayes<\/strong>\u2019 music ever again.\u00a0Hayes\u2019 estate sued over Trump\u2019s use of the Hayes-penned track \u201cHold On (I\u2019m Coming)\u201d at his rallies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Okpako\/WireImage Former President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay damages to singer Eddy Grant over his use of Grant\u2019s 1983 hit \u201cElectric Avenue\u201d during the 2020 election. Grant\u2019s lawyers initially sent the Trump campaign a cease-and-desist letter over the use of a short clip of the song in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddy-grant-wins-legal-fight-against-donald-trump-over-electric-avenue-use\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}