(Muscians: Know Your Rights!) By Stef Lach, LouderSound | The United States government had to delete a video from X (formerly Twitter) after it used Metallica’s Enter Sandman without permission. [The] Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, posted a clip on X promoting the country’s new approach to building military drones. In the clip, Hegseth was shown signing an order to cut “bureaucratic red tape” while the iconic metal band’s massive hit song played in the background.
But it didn’t take long for Metallica’s lawyers to have the video removed. It was later replaced with an identical clip, with the Metallica track removed.
A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (DoD) said: “This afternoon, representatives from X reached out to DoD regarding a video posted to our social media page and asked that the video be removed due to a copyright issue with the song Enter Sandman by Metallica. The video has been taken down, corrected, and re-uploaded to our page.”
Representatives of Metallica confirmed to Rolling Stone that the track had been used without the band’s consent.
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