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highplainsdem

(49,125 posts) Fri Feb 15, 2019, 09:33 PM Feb 2019

R.E.M.'s publisher asks Twitter to remove SOTU video tweeted by Trump over use of the band's song

From CNBC this evening:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/rem-publisher-asks-twitter-to-remove-video-tweeted-by-trump-over-song-use.html

The publisher of rock band R.E.M.'s music asked Twitter to remove a satirical video clip containing one of the band's songs that President Donald Trump's account tweeted Friday, CNBC has learned.

The clip, which was first posted by another Twitter user and runs more than two minutes in length, plays audio from R.E.M.'s early-'90s hit single "Everybody Hurts" over excerpts from Trump's Feb. 5 State of the Union address.

R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills took notice, saying that the president had retweeted the video from Twitter account CarpeDonktum, who Mills says created it.

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Link to the GD thread I posted earlier after Trump tweeted the video:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211824281

The tweet and video are still there.

Link to tweet

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R.E.M.'s publisher asks Twitter to remove SOTU video tweeted by Trump over use of the band's song (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2019 OP

He Used "it's the End of the World.." during the campaign because it mentions him underpants Feb 2019 #1

The Tweet has been taken down Fritz Walter Feb 2019 #2

underpants

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1. He Used "it's the End of the World.." during the campaign because it mentions him

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2019, 09:35 PM

Feb 2019

The boys fired back quickly with a cease and desist letter and he stopped.

Fritz Walter

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2. The Tweet has been taken down

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Feb 16, 2019, 03:48 PM

Feb 2019

Per Huffington Post:
CNBC reported early Saturday that Twitter had disabled the video, at the request of lawyers from Universal Music Publishing Group, which owns the publishing rights to the song. The meme’s creator called the move “censorship.”

Multiple musicians and groups have criticized Trump for using their songs without permission at his campaign rallies — including The Rolling Stones, Rihanna, Guns N’ Roses and Aerosmith.

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe himself, in 2015, also instructed Trump to “not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.”

The legal video of the song is posted inside the HuffPo article.

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