'My Father Would Not Want That Man Playing His Music': Isaac Hayes III Roasts Trump

Published: Sep 02, 2024 Duration: 00:04:55 Category: News & Politics

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was basically that your father isn't here to speak for himself whether or not he wants that SED how did you react to hearing that and what do you think your father would say I mean that's not I mean that that's fine copyright law states that um after 56 years of publication the rights of those songs either return to the author or The Heirs which is our family they've returned to our family we have a right to defend and protect our copyright and we did other than that um I've never wanted this song uh to be asso with Donald Trump in the manner that he was using it because it was something that he was repeatedly more than any other song at his rallies he's been playing this song for four years almost um over and over again at rallies um as I've said before my sisters are behind me my my father uh uh was a father of uh Seven Daughters I have seven sisters Donald Trump has been found liable of sexual abuse I know my father would not want that man playing his music uh man's been found liable of sexual abuse and some of the things that he says about women black women and women of color especially in this election and so we have to take a stand that we want to separate ourselves from someone with Donald Trump's character this is not a political issue this is a character issue um that's been made very clear today and I I want to say something hold on second I want to say something to the brother who asked about the former president if you heard the judge clearly the judge said you need a license and that's a very very telling statement because there are 51 52 plus illegal uses that do not have a license so for a judge this morning to say to Donald Trump and team Trump and some of the other defendants who've now capitulated and said they will get us documents or they will work it out they will pull things down it's a very important point that the judge said you need a license under title 17 they argued fair use they argued political speech they argued a bunch of things I think their theory was we're going to just throw something out there and hope something sticks up against the wall and it's the tactic lawyers use where you throw something out and hope something with the judge to help you get evicted this judge who I applaud understood intellectual property he understood title 17 he understood copyright law and by him understanding everything he was able to tell team Trump you don't have a license you don't have a license so don't use his music anymore period now that gets into us moving this case ahead as attorney green and attorney Griggs know we'll move this case ahead now and start with Discovery depositions and a lot of other things to basically make them pay and the damages are in the millions the damages are in the millions when you talk about this many willful copyright infringing no it's after after they after that license been terminated by BMI there's no any opportunity to return to use a song and that was told to him over a 100 days ago and he continue to use the song so there's no coming back from using the song you respond to the Su that's totally not totally not politically motivated I've been doing these cases for almost 30 years we've gotten probably 250 plus artists out of bad contracts and situations like this this is what we do I saw him post something on August 3rd and I called him from Chicago and said do you want us to handle this and he said please step in so from August 3rd to September 3rd he has shut Donald Trump down he and the team of lawyers Ava start to sitting back here quietly our copyright administrator Gina Ryan there's a whole team of people Paul Wilson one of my associates some Associates who couldn't be here really did a heat of work a whole lot of work here a large amount of work and our Howard law students also stepped in so I want to make sure we recognize a body of people who work non-stop for 30 days to get a prary preliminary injunction on Donald Trump that is an unheard of unheard of order by a court is one of the highest and hardest things you can get a cour to award you but this man got it in the beginning to play correct you said it on the elevator he played it through yeah he played it exactly where I wanted him to know that Isaac Hayes was a songwriter and had written amazing records like hold on I'm coming in Soul Man um for artists like Sammy David he established himself as a wrer WR so so people think that nobody knows that Isaac Hayes wrote hold and I'm coming that's just simply not true he was inducted into the songwriters Hall of Fame along with David forter in 2005 so very many people that know and more importantly the people that we do business with that could affect Donald Trump using our music know who Isaac ha is and who the writer of that song is GS you want to take that one discovery

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