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highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:07 PM Jul 13

Popular rock band says Homeland Security used its song without permission: 'Go f... yourselves'

(Cross-post from General Discussion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220481625 )

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2025/07/popular-rock-band-says-homeland-security-used-its-song-without-permission-go-f-yourselves.html

The Department of Homeland Security decided to share a hype video on Instagram along with a voice over featuring some Bible verses and a clip of the song, “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”

Check out the comments on the video, and plenty of folks took issue with the video, but none perhaps as much as the popular rock band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. And that is because the video uses its cover of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” and the band says it does so without its permission.

“It has come to our attention that the Department of Homeland Security is improperly using our recording of ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’ in your latest propaganda video,” the band wrote on Instagram. “It’s obvious that you don’t respect Copyright Law and Artist Rights any more than you respect Habeas Corpus and Due Process rights, not to mention the separation of Church and State per the US Constitution.

“For the record, we hereby order @dhsgov to cease and desist the use of our recording and demand that you immediately pull down your video,” the post continued. “Oh, and go f… yourselves.”

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Popular rock band says Homeland Security used its song without permission: 'Go f... yourselves' (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 13 OP
Fuck those hypocrite jackasses. That song has a meaning they should see as a warning and not as an endorsement. marble falls Jul 13 #1
There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission, then you can use th Norrrm Jul 13 #2

marble falls

(67,049 posts)
1. Fuck those hypocrite jackasses. That song has a meaning they should see as a warning and not as an endorsement.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:12 PM
Jul 13

Norrrm

(2,445 posts)
2. There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission, then you can use th
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:03 PM
Jul 13

There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission, then you can use theirs to promote any cause you wish.

Reciprocity.

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