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The household of late soul singer Isaac Hayes is suing former President Donald Trump for the use of the icon’s track at his rallies, Isaac Hayes III announced on Sunday.

A day after the later performer’s son accused Trump of “racism” and ripped him for enjoying his father’s hit music Dangle On, I’m Coming last week at his rally in Atlanta, Hayes III shared excerpts of a lawsuit he had filed. The filing accused the previous president and the Republican Nation Committee of “willfully and overtly” enticing in 134 counts of copyright infringement.

We the household of @isaachayes Isaac Hayes Enterprises, represented with the aid of Walker & Buddies, are suing @realDonaldTrump and his campaign for 134 counts copyright infringement for the unauthorized use of the song “Hang On I’m Coming” at campaign rallies from 2022-2024.

We demand… p.c.twitter.com/GOBLz7ejYL

— Isaac Hayes III (@IsaacHayes3) August eleven, 2024

A letter to Trump and his marketing campaign from the Georgia-based law firm Walker & Associates reads:

Our agency has been retained through the household and Isaac Hayes Enterprises, who own the copyright to the musical composition and recording “Grasp On (I’m Coming)” (the “Track”). It has come to our consideration that you just or the marketing campaign have approved the illegal public performance of the Music on a couple of occasions all through various rallies for your political campaign with out authorization from the copyright holder, despite being asked again and again to not engage in such unlawful use through our client.

Upon data and perception, you, your campaign, and/or the RNC and different events have willfully and overtly engaged in copyright infringement in violation of a number of provisions of Title 17 U.S.C., including § 501, of the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, over one hundred occasions. We now have attached to your convenience a non-exhaustive record hooked up hereto as Show off A. As we ready this letter, there was once an extra use in Montana just two nights in the past, even along with your office it appears conscious that you just had no permission. We and the household hereby demand that you simply cease the chronic infringement of our copyright and stop all unauthorized use of the Track.

The suit further calls for Trump pay $3 million, stop the usage of the track, and to cast off any campaign multimedia of the song being performed at rallies. Hayes’ estate additionally demanded Trump difficulty a statement acknowledging he performed the track with out permission.

Saturday evening, Hayes III tweeted, “Donald Trump represents the worst in integrity and class together with his disrespect and sexual abuse of Women and racist rhetoric.”

The go well with on behalf of Hayes’ household comes a day after pop singer Celine Dion ripped Trump for playing a video of her performing her 1997 hit My Heart Will Go On at a rally Friday in Montana.

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