Isaac Hayes' son plans to modify lawsuit over classic song played at Trump rallies, RNC reveals

Source: Law & Crime

Sep 7th, 2024, 11:53 am


The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday asked the federal judge who recently blocked the Trump campaign from playing the 1966 Sam and Dave classic “Hold on I’m Coming” at rallies to allow more time for a response to the lawsuit since the plaintiff, the son of song co-writer Isaac Hayes, plans on amending the lawsuit in the coming days.

As Law&Crime has reported, Hayes’ estate and son Isaac Hayes III publicly threatened to sue for copyright infringement in August.

“Today, on the anniversary of my father @isaachayes death we have repeatedly asked Donald Trump, the RNC and his representatives not to use ‘Hold on I’m Coming’ written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter during campaign rallies but yet again, in Montana they used it,” Hayes III wrote on X. “Donald Trump represents the worst in integrity and class with his disrespect and sexual abuse of Women and racist rhetoric.”

“We will now deal with this very swiftly,” he added. Hayes III, Isaac Hayes Enterprises LLC, and attorney James Walker then followed through on the lawsuit threat days later, with Walker alluding to the Ten Commandments in comment about the case against Trump, the Trump campaign, Turning Point USA, the NRA, and the American Conservative Union.

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