The United States District Court in the Southern District of New York has issued an Opinion and Order in the matter concerning Guyanese-born international artiste, Eddy Grant and former United States president, Donald Trump, ruling that Grant’s music was improperly used and the musician was not compensated for his creation.
Grant, through his companies – Greenheart Music Limited (UK), and Greenheart Music Limited (Antigua) – had brought a copyright infringement action against former President Trump and his campaign for the unauthorised use of Grant’s music in an animated video created by a third party during the 2020 US presidential election campaign and posted by former President Trump on his personal Twitter account.
The piece of music in question was the song, “Electric Avenue” for which Grant, the plaintiff, asserted claims for copyright infringement for both the musical composition and the sound recording.
