Queen Pushes Trump to Take Down Campaign Video Featuring 'We Will Rock You'

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Queen forced President Donald Trump to remove a video from Twitter featuring the band’s 1977 hit “We Will Rock You” last week, Buzzfeed reports.

Trump tweeted the video last Wednesday, October 9th, and it was unavailable on Twitter by Sunday, October 14th. The clip reportedly featured footage of Trump speaking at rallies while “We Will Rock You” played in its entirety. Before being axed, the video was reportedly viewed more than 1.7 million times.

At the time the video went up, a representative for Queen confirmed the use of the song was unauthorized, adding that the band had “already entered into a process to call for non use of Queen song copyrights by the Trump campaign.” The takedown request was ultimately carried out by Queen’s music publisher.


A representative for Queen declined Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/queen-donald-trump-video-we-will-rock-you-898852/

[klook]

1. Really? I thought they got along great.

Oh, QUEEN! Sorry, my bad.

[area51]

7. Ha!

[tanyev]

2. Why do you do this, Donny?

You’ve got the entire Pat Boone, Wayne Newton, Lee Greenwood and Ted Nugent catalog to pick from, and you keep using songs from artists that absolutely detest you.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. He talks a lot like Wayne Newton.

He's got the same accent and the sound he makes like there's just a bit of helium in his voice is just like Wayne. If fortunes were reversed and we had gotten Wayne Newton for President and Donald Trump as a Vegas singer, I wonder if we'd have been in better shape.

[diva77]

3. is Dump heeding requests by musical artists to stop using their music? since he believes

he's above the law, why would such requests have any more power than a subpeona?

[leftieNanner]

4. He has been asked

MORE THAN ONCE by Prince's estate to stop using his music.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Reciprocity.

There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission, then you can use theirs to promote any cause you wish.

Reciprocity.