Adele: No permission given to political campaigns to use her music

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Tue Feb 2, 2016 1:37pm EST

Adele: No permission given to political campaigns to use her music

British singer Adele made clear on Monday that she has not given permission for anyone to use her music for political campaigns.

Adele's spokesman issued a statement after Republican U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump played Adele's 2011 hit song "Rolling in the Deep" at rallies in Iowa, and Mike Huckabee released a YouTube parody last week of her 2015 single "Hello."

"Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," the singer's spokesman said in an email. The spokesman did not say whether Adele, whose new album "25" was the biggest seller in the United States last year, was contemplating legal steps to prevent the unauthorized use of her music.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-adele-idUSKCN0VA3LX

[KamaAina]

1. Rumor has it

tRump is a vulgar talking yam.

[Warpy]

2. Ham, not yam.

[KamaAina]

3. You must have him confused with KKKarl Rove

[jberryhill]

4. Lol

First off, identifying the Huckabee work specifically as a "parody" removes it from requiring to be licensed.

Secondly, "Rolling in the Deep" is licensable through BMI as Work #11550555

http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyid=11550555&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID

[Initech]

5. Adele is on the outside.

Or....Outsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide...

[snooper2]

8. she is actually a ghost

[Nye Bevan]

6. Please can a lawyer answer this question as this keeps coming up.

Does a political campaign require permission of the artist to play a song by the artist at a campaign event? (Let's leave the Huckabee parody aside for now).

[Nye Bevan]

9. Found the answer: legally, Trump can play Adele's songs to his heart's content,

and there's nothing she can really do to stop him:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/experts-trump-can-play-adeles-sad-songs-as-much-as-hed-like

[MillennialDem]

7. Republicans should be forced to play the sith imperial march imho.