If trump paid a license fee to BMI or ASCAP, he can play it all he wants. Young doesn’t have the right to pick and choose licensees.
The RNC paid a fee for public performance of the entire catalog for the GOP convention. The Wilson sisters had no right to demand they stop playing Barracuda.
On the other had, that license doesn’t apply to TV and radio commercials. McCain used a John Fogarty song in a commercial without permission, and lost in court.
Well is Trump being reported as having done that (put a song in a political commercial without getting a license)?
Like Rush using Chrissie Hynde’s song for his theme song.
Assuming it is licensed by them that is correct (not everyone uses them). And the fee is based on #plays so not always “all you want”. I dead (and the source may have been wrong) that no fee was paid, so that’s the best info I have atm.