>>Hi Kevin,
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>>Let's start with one principle. Music is not free. Radio stations plays music and the artist get royalties. Spotify lets you listen to whatever artists you like and those artists gets royalties.
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>>Even if some of those artists are gazillionaire they still get their royalties.
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>>Are politicians so special they think they should get it for free.
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>Denis, you might want to take a look at the context of "fair use" within U.S. Copyright laws.

FWIW, one of the fair use criteria is how much of the work is used. Singing one line of a song probably qualifies; playing the whole song almost certainly doesn't.

Tamar