Twitter released a video of Trump’s re-election campaign featuring a version of Linkin Park’s “In the End” on Saturday night, after the band filed a copyright removal notice demanding its removal.
Linkin Park confirmed on Saturday night that it had taken steps to remove the video. Linkin Park neither endorsed nor endorses Trump, nor authorized his organization to use our music. A cease and desist has been issued, ”the group said in a statement on Twitter.
Donald Trump had tweeted the video on Saturday, which the White House chief of social media previously uploaded on Friday. A message in that video now says, “This media has been disabled in response to a report from the copyright owner.”
The DMCA’s Lumen Database of Deletion Notices shows a July 18 presentation by Machine Shop Entertainment, the management company and commercial arm of Linkin Park, which formally requests the deletion of the video under the Bill of Rights Act. of the Author of the Digital Millennium of the USA
The late Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington, who died two years ago on July 20, 2017, had been strongly anti-Trump. In a post a few months before his death, Bennington tweeted, “I repeat … Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism! We have to get our voices back and defend what we believe in.”
Donald Trump and his campaign have come under frequent objection from artists demanding that he stop using his music in his ads or at his rallies. Among them are the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Panic! on the Disc, Pharrell Williams, REM, Aerosmith, Adele, Village People and Tom Petty’s family.
The version of Linkin Park’s “In the End” used in the Trump video was a Tommee Profitt cover featuring Fleurie and Jung Youth. In a tweet on Saturday, Jung Youth wrote: “Earlier today I discovered that Trump was illegally using a song he was part of in a propaganda video he tweeted… anyone who knows me knows that I am firmly against bigotry and racism. . Much love to all members of the Twitter community who helped delete the video!
Regarding the Trump 2020 campaign’s use of the song Linkin Park, Twitter commenters noted the strange choice of “In the End.” The song’s chorus lyrics are: “I tried so hard / I got very far / But in the end / It doesn’t even matter.”
Trump and his associates have regularly committed copyright infringement violations on content posted online.
On July 1, Twitter snapped a photo Trump posted of himself at a 2015 New York Times function after the Times filed a request for the DMCA’s removal. In June, Twitter and Facebook removed a video Trump shared, which was faked as if it were broadcast on CNN, following a claim of copyright infringement by the video’s original owner. In addition, Twitter and Facebook released a video of the Trump 2020 campaign that included images and videos of George Floyd along with protests and riots following the murder of Floyd by the Minneapolis police, acting on a DMCA removal request from a rights holder of one of the images that the campaign video had misappropriated.
Last year, Twitter removed the video of the President showing Nickelback’s “Photograph” after the Warner Music Group complained, as well as a video of the Trump campaign using parts of the score for Warner Bros. ‘Batman movie. “The Dark Knight Rises”.
