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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Primary Wave Music has announced a partnership with the heirs of a producer behind the legendary dance-music group the Village People that involves a stake in the outfit’s brand, master recordings and publishing assets. Songs included in the partnership are such dancefloor icons as “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man,” “In the Navy,” “Go West” and more.

The record label behind the Village People has said that it plans to sue Donald Trump over his use of ‘YMCA’ in a video he shared on Twitter as the polls opened in the US last week.Speaking to Agence France-Presse, President of French label Scorpio Music, Jonathan Belolo said: “The beneficiaries of [band co-founders] Messrs Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, like the company Scorpio Music, owner of the work, discovered with amazement this illicit appropriation, which is … for [the] partisan and electoral purposes of Donald Trump, which they would never have accepted”.He added that a legal complaint would be submitted in France and the US “in the next few days**”.**Trump’s use of ‘YMCA’ to close his political rallies during his failed campaign

Donald Trump and his political team are set to be sued for copyright infringement over the use of the song YMCA in election campaign videos.Mr Trump regularly used the 70s discos hit to close out his rallies during the 2020 election trail.On the eve of Americans heading to the polls on Tuesday, he posted a last-minute video featuring clips of him dancing to the Village People tune, despite the band asking him not to.Now the beneficiaries of the writers of the song, Messrs Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, will launch official complaints in the US and the their native France.They are taking action along with record company Scorpio Music, which owns the rights of the piece, and co-writer and Village People frontman Victor Willis.A statement