{"id":256388,"date":"2024-08-22T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-after-trump-campaign-uses-freedom-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:54","slug":"beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-after-trump-campaign-uses-freedom-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-after-trump-campaign-uses-freedom-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 Threatens Cease-and-Desist After Trump Campaign Uses \u2018Freedom\u2019 \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-media edge-to-edge entry-media--lead-image\" aria-describedby=\"lead-image-credit\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper image-wrapper--widescreen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-2123633817_d78907-e1724356794737.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=384&amp;h=216&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-hl-384x216-tc size-hl-384x216-tc wp-post-image\" alt=\"Beyonc\u00e9 accepts the Innovator Award at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on April 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner\/Billboard via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-2123633817_d78907-e1724356794737.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=384&amp;h=216&amp;crop=1 384w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-2123633817_d78907-e1724356794737.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=768&amp;h=432&amp;crop=1 768w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-2123633817_d78907-e1724356794737.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=1536&amp;h=864&amp;crop=1 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 670px\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption id=\"lead-image-credit\">Image Credit: Billboard via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- .entry-media --><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> did not receive permission to use the song \u201cFreedom\u201d from <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>\u2018s 2016 album <em>Lemonade<\/em> in a 13-second video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-trump-campaign-freedom-video-1235084830\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <\/a>reported on Wednesday, Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">After <strong>Steven Cheung<\/strong>, a spokesperson for the former president, shared a video on his X account of Trump walking off a plane on Tuesday, Aug. 20, set to the Grammy-nominated song\u2014with the caption, \u201cTouchdown in Michigan!!\u201d\u2014the \u201cSay My Name\u201d singer sent a cease-and-desist letter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">The use of the song, which also features <strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>, quickly drew attention online, especially since Democratic nominee <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong>\u2014with Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s permission\u2014has used it at several campaign events. Her supporters have even been pictured wearing cowboy hats and \u201cCowboy Kamala\u201d sashes, referencing Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 2024 album <em>Cowboy Carter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">Additionally, the Harris-Walz campaign debuted a new ad soundtracked by \u201cFreedom,\u201d with actor <strong>Jeffrey Wright<\/strong> narrating, \u201cWhat kind of America do we want? One where we\u2019re divided, angry, depressed? C\u2019mon! We\u2019re Americans! Fascism? We conquered it. The moon? Landed on it. The future? Building it. Freedom? Nobody loves it more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe title=\"Kamala Harris Launches Her Campaign for President\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sHky_Xopyrw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">As of today, Aug. 22, Trump\u2019s campaign has quietly deleted the video.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Although Beyonc\u00e9 has not officially endorsed Harris, the Vice President and her husband<strong> Doug Emhoff<\/strong> were gifted tickets to the Renaissance World Tour in Maryland by the artist herself last year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Throughout his political career, the <em>Apprentice<\/em> star hasn\u2019t exactly had artists lining up to lend their music to his campaign. In fact, several have issued warnings of varying levels of severity over the years for using their tracks without permission.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">Earlier this month, the Trump campaign was called out by <strong>C\u00e9line Dion<\/strong> for using her 1997 hit song \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d at a campaign rally in Montana.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">And just last week, the estate of the late singer-songwriter<strong> Isaac Hayes<\/strong> sued the Republican presidential nominee and his campaign for the alleged unauthorized use of the song \u201cHold On, I\u2019m Coming\u201d in campaign videos. Lawyers for the Hayes family argue that Trump owes the estate $150,000 for each alleged unauthorized use of the song, which the Trump campaign has reportedly used over 100 times.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-11\">The family of the late <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong> also condemned the use of the musician\u2019s song during Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-12\">Since 2016, the Rolling Stones have issued multiple statements calling for Trump to \u201ccease all use\u201d of their music. However, Trump continued using the band\u2019s song \u201cYou Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want\u201d despite their objections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2024\/08\/22\/beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-after-trump-campaign-uses-song-freedom\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Image Credit: Billboard via Getty Images Donald Trump did not receive permission to use the song \u201cFreedom\u201d from Beyonc\u00e9\u2018s 2016 album Lemonade in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}