…Detroit candidates using the old school songs Wake Up Everybody and Ain’t No Stopping Us Now written by the duo of McFadden and Whitehead are on notice that the artists will pursue legal remedies to stop the theft of intellectual property.
A NABO investigation reveals that three Detroit candidates for the state legislature are usurping McFadden & Whitehead songs without permission. The husband and wife team of Chester and Ellen Logan that seek the offices of state representative and state senator respectively are misappropriating the song Ain’t No Stopping Us Now in their political ads. Bertha Coleman Poe, the former Secretary Treasurer of the Michigan State AFL-CIO that is running for state representative, is wrongfully using the song Wake Up Everybody.
In their defense, the campaign had this to say: “The Ficano campaign respects the artist work product. We followed the proper procedure and worked through proper channels to compensate and obtain permission to use the song Ain’t No Stopping Us Now.”
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