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Setlist: Donald Trump’s Electric Avenue fair use failure

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 4 October 2021

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Donald Trump’s failed attempt to have a copyright infringement case brought against him by Eddy Grant dismissed on the grounds of fair use, and the attempt by the man who (as a baby) appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album to have the artwork on the record’s 30th anniversary reissue censored.

SECTION TIMES
01: Electric Avenue (00:02:19)
02: Nevermind (00:18:13)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• New York judge declines to dismiss Eddy Grant’s copyright case against Donald Trump
• Nevermind baby demands that the album’s artwork be edited on all future re-releases

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