Kenny Loggins Wants 'Danger Zone' Removed From AI 'King Trump' Truth Social Video

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Wrap

Kenny Loggins says he wants his song “Danger Zone” removed from Donald Trump’s weekend AI-generated Truth Social post that shows the president dumping feces on No Kings protestors from a jet labeled “King Trump.”

“This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately,” Loggins said in a Monday statement.

“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together,” he continued. “We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.”

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The “Top Gun” hit is also not the first song to be featured in a Trump-sanctioned capacity without its performer’s approval. Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Isaac Hayes, The White Stripes, ABBA and Céline Dion have all condemned his use of their music at his campaign stops and in his political ads, to varying degrees.


Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/kenny-loggins-danger-zone-king-trump-ai-video-response/

[CrispyQ]

1. This theft of intellectual property is just wrong. It's wrong & I fucking hate AI.

Okay, I do like Google's "AI overview" which I've found to be mostly accurate & pretty thorough, but it's just a better search engine, not AI.

[highplainsdem]

6. Google's AI Overview is often wrong, and it's also very harmful to the websites it rips off for its

summaries.

It is AI. GenAI, the most harmful type.

And it uses 10x the electricity of regular search.

Please don't use it.

[CrispyQ]

9. So don't use google for searching at all or is there a way to turn off AI searching?

I don't ask it to provide the AI overview, it just does it.

[Moosepoop]

11. You can turn off AI searching in Google.

At the end of the search string, add "-ai" without the quotation marks. It will filter out AI generated content.

[CrispyQ]

12. Thank you. -nt

[popsdenver]

16. Since when

have the Repubs or Trump honored the laws of "Intellectual Property".......especially with music they un-lawfully use, or when Melania plagarized Michelle's speech........

Under these Republicans, nothing belongs to any of us, Everything belongs to Trump, Republicans, and Corporations...........

THAT is just the way it is in a: FASCIST CORPORATE TYRANNY/DICTATORSHIP.........

[Prairie Gates]

2. Bravo Kenny Loggins

[SheltieLover]

3. Good for him. Sue the prick!

[The Grand Illuminist]

20. White Stripes tried but had to drop it.

It drags on making things very expensive. Even with a pro Bono attorney, there are other expenses plaintiffs have to pay.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Trump don't give a fuck about gettin permission

He’s a conservative. What’s the latest on THE EPSTEIN THING? Mike Johnson still a lying treasonous bastard not doing his job?

FOOTLOOSE, part of my soundtrack. Thanks Kenny Loggins and your old partner Jim Messina.

[twodogsbarking]

5. This link is worth a read. Always have loved Kenny. Saw him once with The Blue Sky Raiders

https://americansongwriter.com/house-at-pooh-corner-kenny-loggins-song-interview/

[Bayard]

7. Some AI artist,

Needs to redo trump's little video showing the words, "Epstein Epstein Epstein," falling out of the back of the jet.

[FredGarvin]

8. Kenny did a great job with the song, but...

The ownership of the song "Danger Zone" is split between the original composers and the publisher that holds the rights to one of the co-writers' catalogs.

Giorgio Moroder composed the music, and Tom Whitlock wrote the lyrics.

I wonder if Ken has a leg to stand on, legally

[twodogsbarking]

13. Good point. Maybe it's just blowing smoke but it might rattle the orange turd.

[Initech]

10. Go Kenny Loggins! Something something danger zone!

[ffr]

14. I second some international headlines, Trump's AI post was "unpresidential" and "disturbing."

Using violence against peaceful American protesters. What a deplorable despot he is. He does not represent the majority of Americans. Never has!!!

[Blue Owl]

15. Can't Kid Rock create his own theme song "Deranger Zone"?

[The Grand Illuminist]

17. Depends on the publisher.

If the song was acquired through the publisher, not much Loggins can do. If it was taken without authorization, it will take a lot of money for litigation. So much so, not even a Go Fund Me will reach the full affordability goal. White Stripes gave up because of the same monetary problem.

[Bengus81]

22. I doubt any of that happened,that video and song was spur of the moment shit IMO

[The Grand Illuminist]

23. In this tech age....

Things happen faster than what we were use to.

[KS Toronado]

18. My brother was over this morning

He was saying that the video was all the talk on fakebook today and lots of MAGAts
loved it. He responded with stuff like
"So you'd be OK if we shit on your parade?"
"Didn't trump know a third of the people were republicans that voted for him?"
Can't remember everything he said.

[mdbl]

19. They should have used YMCA

Isn't that the only song they're allowed to use?

[Bengus81]

21. Sue him for oh....$10 billion or more.

[The Grand Illuminist]

24. But this...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143337896

[ck4829]

25. K&R