A federal judge in New York has ruled that former President Donald Trump infringed on the copyrights of British-Guyanese singer Eddy Grant by using his Reggae-fusion hit Electric Avenue (1982) in a 2020 campaign video without permission.
In his Friday (September 13) order granting partial summary judgment in favor of Grant, Judge John G. Koeltl rejected Trump’s argument that his use of the song was protected under fair use, stating that the video had a “very low degree of transformativeness, if any at all.”
Grant, along with Greenheart Music Limited, had filed the US$300,000 lawsuit in 2020 after Trump used the song in a social media video featuring a “Trump” train outrunning a Joe Biden handcar.
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