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Musicians call on politicians to stop using their music without permission
A group of musicians – including Elton John, Sia, Lorde, Linkin Park, REM, Pearl Jam and Alanis Morissette – have signed a letter calling on US politicians to stop using music in their political campaigns without asking first.“This is the only way to effectively protect your candidates from legal risk, unnecessary public controversy, and the moral quagmire that comes from falsely claiming or implying an artist’s support or distorting an artists’ expression in such a high stakes public way”, says the letter, organised by the Artist Rights Alliance.The letter notes that this is “not a new problem”, nor one that is limited to any one specific political party.