LOS ANGELES — The Mitt Romney campaign has been asked to stop unauthorized playing of the Silversun Pickups’ hit “Panic Switch" during campaign events.
“We don’t like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don’t like the Romney campaign," Silversun Pickups lead singer-guitarist Brian Aubert said in a statement issued Wednesday.
The statement said the band’s attorney has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Romney campaign.
Last month, a Romney campaign attack ad directed at President Barack Obama — showing a clip of Obama singing a snippet from Al Green’s hit “Let’s Stay Together" — was pulled from YouTube because the song’s publisher said the use constituted a violation of copyright.