Musician Eddy Grant is suing President Donald Trump for using his 1982 hit song “Electric Avenue” during a campaign video clip.
The video features an animated train with Trump’s campaign logo speeding through a town while Biden follows along in a railroad handcar.
Grant’s song plays throughout the duration of the video, which ends with letters spelling out “Biden Train” falling off the screen.
“Electric Avenue” plays in the video clip, which Trump tweeted last month. The video clip garnered 13 million views through Tuesday afternoon.
The campaign removed the video, but the 72-year-old Guyanese-British singer-songwriter filed a lawsuit Tuesday, citing Trump for “continued to willfully and wrongfully infringing Plaintiffs’ copyrights.”
Grant’s lawyer noted “substantial damage and irreparable harm has occurred and will continue to occur to my client and his reputation as an artist not affiliated in any way with your campaign.”
The Trump campaign has received warnings and legal action after multiple demands to stop using copyrighted music by other musicians in his campaign rallies.
