In today's CMU Daily: The White Stripes have fallen out with Donald Trump for a second time. After enraging the band in 2016 when he used their music in a campaign video, he’s done it again - and this time the band are going legal, saying his “flagrant misappropriation” of their music has left them “disgusted”

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The White Stripes sue Trump campaign, “disgusted” by its “flagrant misappropriation” of Seven Nation Army

The White Stripes have sued Donald Trump and his election campaign over his use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ in a video that the campaign posted to social media at the end of August. Use of the track in the video without permission was a “flagrant misappropriation of the musical composition and recording”, which are, says the duo’s legal filing, “among the most well-known and influential musical works of all time”.

Trump, continues the lawsuit, “as a self-professed sophisticated and successful businessman with decades-long experience in the entertainment industry”, should have realised that the use of ‘Seven Nation Army’ in the video “was unauthorised, and, therefore, violated [the band’s] rights under the Copyright Act”.

Obviously this is not the first time that Trump has been on the receiving end of a lawsuit about music used as part of his campaign. Nor is it the first time he’s had a run-in with The White Stripes. Back in 2016, during his first run for President, he used ‘Seven Nation Army’ in another campaign video, which the band criticised on social media at the time.

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NO FAKES Act is a “blunt solution” that “goes too far” say tech companies

The NO FAKES Act in the US has come under fire from organisations representing technology companies, libraries and digital rights advocates which insist that the proposed new legal framework to regulate AI-generated digital replicas “goes too far”. The proposals, formally introduced into US Senate in July and widely welcomed by the music industry, offer “a blunt solution before we understand the problem”, an open letter declares.

“We understand and share the serious concerns many have expressed about the ways digital replica technology can be misused, with harms that can impact ordinary people as well as performers and celebrities”, the letter says, adding, “these harms deserve the serious attention they are receiving and preventing them may well involve legislation to fill gaps in existing law”.

However, regulation already exists at both a federal and state level, continues the letter, through publicity rights, and laws relating to fair competition, false advertising and privacy. This means that Congress should concern itself with introducing new rules where there are actual gaps in the current legal framework, argues the letter, and that “The recently-introduced NO FAKES bill goes too far in introducing an entirely new federal intellectual property right”.

UK consumer rights champion ‘Which?’ tells Oasis “do the right thing and refund fans”

UK consumer rights group Which? has called on Oasis and Live Nation’s Ticketmaster to “do the right thing” and refund fans who ended up paying much more than expected for tickets to the band’s much hyped reunion shows after dynamic pricing saw prices soar.

People buying tickets for the shows, says Lisa Webb at Which?, “weren’t properly warned about the use of ‘in demand’ pricing until far too late in the purchase journey - leading to a nasty shock at the checkout”. For that reason, Oasis and Ticketmaster may “have breached consumer law”, she adds, and therefore “should do the right thing and refund fans”.

The band have been keen to distance themselves from the decision to use dynamic pricing on tickets for their shows, saying in a statement last week that decisions around ticketing and pricing were made entirely by their promoters and management.

Apologising is not really part of the Oasis brand, though, and, on X, Liam Gallagher has mainly responded to the backlash in a flippant way, joking about high ticket prices and telling aggrieved fans to “shut up” and buy “kneeling only” tickets.

🎧 Approved: Moreish Idols

South London’s Moreish Idols have showcased an evolution in their sound. Whereas their debut material featured a restless, jerky, jagged and rhythmically centered sound, influenced by energetic post-punk, their second EP revealed an entirely different side to the band.

This evolution saw the group weave together a looser constellation of ideas, combining swooning tremolo guitars, prickly melodic riddles, saxophone improvisations and flexible rhythms, sounding like 'Watery, Domestic'-era Pavement one moment and something Canterbury Scene-esque the next.

With their new single 'Pale Blue Dot', the band continues to transform and challenge their songwriting sensibilities. Blending subtly intricate, cyclical acoustic instrumentation that swells and breaks around the band’s gently layered vocal harmonies, the track once again sees the band reworking their sound to create something new, direct and honest.

🎧 Watch the video for ‘Pale Blue Dot’ here