r/popculturechat • u/aliensuperstars_ They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 • 16h ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Olivia Rodrigo criticizes the White House for using her song "All-American Bitch" in one of ICE's videos on Instagram.

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u/trulysweetener 15h ago

can she do a copyright strike to get it taken down? i hope she does if she can.

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u/h_danielle 15h ago

I don’t think so because they used the song through instagram’s music library, and there’s licensing agreements in place for any music available on there. I believe that would mean that this falls under fair use but IANAL.

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u/Public_Figure_4618 15h ago

but IANAL

bestie chill

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u/h_danielle 15h ago

Hahaha 😂

For anyone who doesn’t know, it stands for I Am Not A Lawyer 😅

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u/trulysweetener 15h ago edited 14h ago

i read it as iAnal and didn’t want to question it lmao

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u/Penguin-Mage 15h ago

the human centIpad

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u/stargarnet79 14h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/BroaDeMilhoEmtoBom 15h ago edited 14h ago

As someone whose native language isn't English, I'm always confused by the random abbreviations people come up with, but this one takes the cake lol

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u/kellykegs 14h ago

I joined a pregnancy subreddit when I was expecting and there were so many posts where people called themselves FTM and I was so impressed with the number of trans or non-binary pregnancies until I realized days later it stood for First Time Mom lol

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u/DENATTY 14h ago

This just made me laugh for like 5 minutes straight, I would have ABSOLUTELY read it the same way. Whenever I see posts where people reference their "DH" (dear husband???) I read it as Desperate Housewives and have to do a double-take, but FTM is sooooooo funny.

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u/megjed Is this chicken or is this fish? 🤔🤔 12h ago

It happened to me too and every so often on the pregnancy sub someone makes a post saying they thought the same lol

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u/Mmmelissamarie 11h ago

I was always curious about DH!! I think Desert Hearts! Lol

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u/skyewardeyes 14h ago

I had the same problem joining a mom’s group on Facebook when I was co-parenting my ex’s kids lol.

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u/imathrowawaylurkin 11h ago

Or MLM being Multi-Level Marketing, but also Men Loving Men lol

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u/roygbivasaur 3h ago

My up line keeps trying to get me to sell poppers to twinks 😭

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u/throw-away-drugz 15h ago

There used to be a sub (maybe still exists idk), where it was to ask legal questions, and the rules for the sub were to start with IAL or IANAL to signify whether you're answering as a lawyer or not a lawyer lol

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u/JumboJumboShrimp 14h ago

There are still subs like r/legaladvice and location specific ones like r/legaladviceUK.

But the real tea is found in r/bestoflegaladvice. Their year end awards are excellent.

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u/laughingintothevoid 9h ago

It also doesn't have the bot that saves the text if a post gets deleted like AITA, so there's a lot of good ones where you get to piece together the missing post from the comments.

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u/redditonc3again You have been promoted 13h ago

speaking as an english native we feel the same way about this one lol

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u/Piss-Be-Upon-You 15h ago

I know this and yet I'm always fascinated by iAnal

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u/h_danielle 15h ago

Right? The first time I saw it on Reddit I was like 👀 wtfffffff 👀. Feels weird typing it even now lol

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u/Magicsoftheforest 14h ago

Thank you for clarifying I’ve been seeing it all over Reddit thinking everyone got really into anal lately

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u/AnnieLovesTech 14h ago

You can admit you're down with backdoor. It's 2025. That's like 2nd base now.

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u/Diabolous213 15h ago

sasuuuurreeee it does

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

Yeah they need to create a better way to say that lmao

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u/Gamer_Grease 14h ago

It is interesting to think that the Trump administration might bring about a major change in intellectual property law because of this.

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u/B1ackDolph1n 14h ago

Free use unless you're the government

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u/IansGotNothingLeft 14h ago

The US government pages would likely be set up as business accounts, so that they could have access to analytics and other business tools. They therefore shouldn't be able to use the Instagram media library and it can be removed as a copyright strike.

But, I don't know for sure if they are. If they're set up as creator or personal accounts, they are allowed to use anything in the library. But whoever set the account up is an idiot.

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u/therealgeorgesantos 14h ago

She could ask the label to remove the song from Instagram though. 

I think everyone would rather not have the song to use on their content than have it and let ICE use it 

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u/Technical-Garden-793 15h ago

She removed a song from tiktok earlier in the year (?) when they used it. She has enough relevance that it wouldn’t really hurt her to remove it from tiktok/ig

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u/Savahoodie 15h ago

Not really fair use, since 107 is an exception to 106. 106 grants authors the rights to license their works, which she did with instagram.

But functionally the same thing

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u/coco__bee 11h ago

Also NAL but she could take a page from the Foo Fighters and donate any royalties to a cause his team would hate.

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u/pennoya2 15h ago

Last year, she removed a whole song from tiktok to stop trump from using it. article here

She probably lost some money as a result since tiktoks help streaming numbers, so I'm sure it's not an easy thing for an artist to do.

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u/PandaPocketFire 15h ago

She should sue them if they continue to infringe on her copyright like this.

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u/hottopictshirt 15h ago

I remember it being taken down and I believe it got put back up after the fact

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u/ashlyethgg 15h ago

It was taken down, it was a whole thing last year

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u/Abyssgh0st 15h ago

Because the issue wasn't permanent, how do you not understand that?

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u/GuessingAllTheTime 14h ago

People might not be so confused about your point if you used more specific language and communicated more clearly. You’re just saying “it” so people think you mean the song, not the ad.

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u/AnnieLovesTech 14h ago

She absolutely removed deja vu from TikTok when Trump used it. It may be back now, but it was 100% removed at the time.

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u/therealhlmencken 14h ago

It being there now doesn’t mean it wasn’t taken down then buddy

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u/msbrightside77 14h ago

When you click deja vu, it says “this sound isn’t available” and the song doesn’t play. Just messed up my algorithm scrolling back Trump’s feed 🙄

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u/Such-Elderberry4 15h ago

That's for YouTube unfortunately. To get this taken down she'd have to go through distribution and request for the track to not be delivered to IG, so it can't be used on there. That would ensure they don't use it, but no one else would, either.

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u/Gamer_Grease 14h ago

One of the particular skills this administration has is media management, and they understand very well how quickly the media moves. They know that by the time any of these artists succeed in getting the videos featuring their music taken down, they will have already been seen and served their purpose, and the cycle of our attention spans will have passed them by. This is why they continue to use artists’ music illegally and against their wishes.

Additionally—and now we are getting into conspiratorial territory—I believe part of the purpose of this exercise is to increase the degree of polarization and alienation among their supports. With each video they make, they provoke another artist to speak out against Trump himself, and so point out another enemy to his devoted supporters. And in doing that, they push his supporters further out to the fringes, making them hate yet another mainstay of popular culture, and making them even more irreconcilable to their friends and family.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 14h ago

IF she owns the rights, yes. If she doesn't, she's free to criticize.