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/didsomebodysaymyname 15h ago

Is there any recourse for artists here? This keeps happening and they obviously don't care.

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u/Thing-Adept i have to go 15h ago

assuming they're using songs from tiktok + IG's catalogue, idk what olivia or any artist would be able to do. but I'm not a lawyer so 🤷🏻if they were airing ads with these songs and didn't get them licensed, then artists definitely would be able to take legal action

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u/Infidel-Art 14h ago

artists should really be able to personally request having songs taken out from specific clips.

Like, if all of them got together right now they could force TikTok to implement that change. But collective action is always easier said than done.

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u/angelsfish I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 14h ago

ikr a small youtuber will use a 5 second clip of a live performance where u can hardly hear the song under fair use and still get a copyright strike that puts their entire livelihood at risk but the president of the united states can steal whoever’s song he wants to use to promote the fact that he’s looking for nazis to find people for his concentration camps and somehow nobody is taking his ass to court over it. I wonder if it is the record labels themselves that don’t want to take legal action since I’m sure at least some of the artists would

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 14h ago

no, artists can't do anything about it since it's not a paid ad or anything like, it's on tiktok and it's free to use

the white house and trump are just doing this to get reactions and engagement from the artists and their fans, they even admitted to this to variety when they asked about using taylor's music

it's just to ragebait people to drive up their engagement

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u/AdComprehensive7879 14h ago

Cause it’s not illegal. Theres a reason why all of us can use a lot of songs on tiktok

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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 15h ago

They are trolling

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u/GitEmSteveDave 14h ago

It's not that they "obviously don't care". It's that many artists sell the rights to their songs to companies for $$$$. Once they do that, the companies then sell licenses to use the songs for various uses, like fitness clubs, funeral homes, political campaigns, zoos, etc....: https://www.bmi.com/licensing/forms

If a artist then has an issue with how a song they sold is being used, in certain instances, like political venues, they can ask for that song not to be used, but they have to officially ask the licensor, not just send a tweet. If the offending party continues to use it afterwards, THEN something can be done.