Yep- plus the issue here is copyright & use laws.
Anytime a campaign plays a song at a rally, they must ensure that they have a public performance license covering the song’s use.
Even if the campaign does have a proper license to play a song at the campaign’s events, musicians may still be able to assert a legal claim that use of their name infringes right of privacy/publicity; infringes or dilute trademark rights in the musician's name; or falsely implies that they have endorsed the candidate.
I'm thinking that "Fair Use" doctrine applies when used for a non profit political use.
17 U.S.C. § 107
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:[6]
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
I think the campaign has a right to use it, but hopefully were not using it as some sort of "patriotic" song, because it's not.
At the same time he appeared a protest rally with just 100 on Mount Rushmore calling it white supremacy.
