those who don't know what the significance of that song is what does it mean what does it mean to America what does it mean to music what does it mean to your family and why would Donald Trump want to use that specific song I mean I don't I don't I don't care about why he wanted to use it I know that my father was you know one of the pillars of stacks as a songwriter before he became an artist he wrote songs that um were the soundtrack of the 60s and the Civil Rights Movement um hold on I'm coming and soul man those records were part of of that and that's extremely important that is one that song is one of the gems of our catalog um and it's licensed you know plenty of times every year and that was that was the point about this injunction is the fact that I don't want um that song politicized in any way because it's not about politics but it's also about the character of the person that's using the song and so let the song speak for itself we don't need Donald Trump's help to highlight um a song that is classic and Powerful as holding I'm coming and the judge also said that um you couldn't prove that you were being harmed by Future Brands who wanted to use that song can you talk about that a little bit well let me answer that he said we couldn't prove that it was irreparable and imminent he didn't say we couldn't prove it down the line at trial he was saying is it something today and obviously there's still licens in the music so I think the judge's position was hey I know you're hurt but you're still making money you're still licensing the song and we respect that you know we could go back and forth but we understand the judge was trying to be fair and balance and attorney green pointed out some things you know about the decision of being fair right and the way it works is that today was to stop Donald Trump from unauthorized use of the song and the protect our right to go forward to be compensated for the use that's already been done so at the end of the day it's a victory across the board are there any Brands out there who actually use the song that you're allow to use it yeah I mean the song gets licensed dozens of times a year so it's it's I couldn't tell you but enormous you know very powerful Brands these are always even when we talk about the the uh the penalty for copyright infringement is $150,000 we get licenses that exceed that sometimes double triple that for this for this song and so um I want to continue to be able to do that this is something I I I'll say say all the time that my father lost the rights to his music so the ability for him to actually benefit off his works with something that he never got to do but we have a family here that never really got the opportunity to do that we are his heirs we have the right to continue to uh defend his copyright and benefit of it we are proud of our father's Legacy that he left the Legacy that's so lasting even Beyond his life and is part of black American culture and American culture itself so um you know I'm not worried about uh you know Trump using that song or any you know adding any value to that any other questions well we thank you all for coming out thank the people watching at home for supporting Isaac Hayes and the family of Isaac Hayes and I thank all my St that are here some here some in the office I think everybody this is just the beginning we still have a lot of work to do we have to go through all of these uses and show where there is no license and I want to point out when you put a video up and someone downloads it now we feel that's another form of infringement just as if you download back in the day something on a CD or dvd we want to go through thoroughly all of these uses and figure out where the video went from Donald Trump posting it to the internet you know surface that people downloading it and hold him accountable for all of it as willful copyright infringement so we thank judge thrash for granting our motion and we thank all of the people who worked here and all of you who kept this story alive it's very important I want Mr Griggs to talk about just artists and their interests and the rights of artists actually want to say that myself yes yeah I I think I want other artists to come forward that don't want their music politicized um I know it's something that is standard done by these PR's BMI Asad but if you don't want your music used by someone like Donald Trump contact your performing rights organization tell them directly that you do not want Donald Trump using your music and they will remove your work from his uh ability to do so which is what we have done and then we taken that step further to Bar him from Ever playing that song again so I hope all the other artists that out there that have been in the news lately that have had a uh an issue with him playing their music take this next step to Bar him from using their music