This kind of bullshit needs a law to be honest.

Politicians should need direct approval before using copyright music in campaigns.

When commenting on the Trump campaign's use of "My Hero," a spokesperson for the band told CBS News on Saturday: "Foo Fighters were not asked permission and if they were, they would have not granted it."

The spokesperson added that any royalties received as a result of the Trump campaign's use of the song will be donated to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz.

Haha. There go my heroes.

But seriously, that's a great middle finger towards Trump. I still remember how quite a few artists seemed intimidated to speak out against conservatives in the mid-noughties (the whole Iraq invasion fiasco). It's good to see many artists today defiantly standing up to conservative hate-mongers.

First Taylor Swift, now the Foo Fighters?!?! Damn Donald, wanna piss off Dolly Parton fans next?

This is the perfect approach. He can't play it without donating to Harris out of his campaign funds. That will actually make him stop.

ASCAP nicely has a whole page set up to ELI5 the licensing of music for political events.

I always had a lot of assumptions, but this breaks it down very nicely.

What music is covered by the ASCAP license for political campaigns?

The ASCAP political campaign license agreement provides a blanket license to perform any or all of the millions of musical works in the ASCAP repertory. However, ASCAP members may ask us to exclude some or all of their works from a particular political campaign's license. In that event, ASCAP will notify the campaign of the excluded works.

If the campaign events are properly licensed, can the campaign still be criticized or even sued by an artist for playing their song at an event?

Yes. If an artist is concerned that their music has been associated with a political campaign, he or she may be able to take legal action even if the campaign has the appropriate performance licenses. The campaign could potentially be in violation of other laws, unrelated to music licensing:

1. The artist’s Right of Publicity, which in many states provides image protection for famous people or artists

2. The Lanham Act, which covers confusion or dilution of a trademark (such as a band or artist name) through its unauthorized use

3. False Endorsement, where use of the artist's identifying work implies that the artist supports a product or candidate

As a general rule, a campaign should be aware that, in most cases, the more closely a song is tied to the "image" or message of the campaign, the more likely it is that the recording artist or songwriter of the song could object to the song's usage by the campaign.

As soon as I heard it O knew David Growl would not approve

He should have learned by now. If He wants to use a song, check if it was recorded by Kid Rock. If not, don't use it.

Trump to Vance:

"Aim for the bushes"

The list gets longer with pretty much every song they play, LOL!

I love how the right idolize certain rock bands having no clue that 99.9% are left leaning. Especially the ones that talk about ragtm, syoad etc, like they are rad left if anything

FFS Donald, don't fight the Foo.

I think Trump's strategy of "Literally piss off everyone and make yourself an enemy of pretty much everyone" is sure to get him elected and it needs to keep doing it. Maybe he should start using racial slurs and directly antagonizing law enforcement?

So Trump is what Foo is? Keeping fighting that Foo Foo fighters!

"The spokesperson added that any royalties received as a result of the Trump campaign's use of the song will be donated to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz."

So... they won't be donating any money to the Harris/Walz campaign?

There goes Walmart Nero …

I prefer the real "My Hero"