Jimmy Barnes
The Cold Chisel singer took to Facebook this week saying that it had come to his attention that "certain groups of people" had been playing his songs at rallies and that such groups did not represent him.
Anti-Islamic groups, including Reclaim Australia and the United Patriots Front, have reportedly used Cold Chisel’s hit Khe Sanh at protests.
Barnes said in the statement "if you look at my family you can see we are a multicultural family." He is an immigrant, after moving to Australia from Scotland in 1956. His wife Jane, with whom he has four children, was born in Thailand. "I only want to say the Australia I belong to and love is a tolerant Australia. A place that is open and giving," he wrote.
Neil Young
Neil Young blasted billionaire Donald Trump last month for using his song “Rockin’ in the Free World” to launch Trump’s political campaign.
Young said Trump did not have permission to use the song but Trump rejected this and labelled Young a “total hypocrite”.
"Donald Trump was not authorised to use Rockin' In The Free World in his presidential candidacy announcement," Young's manager said in a statement.
"Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for president of the United States of America."
Tom Petty
American musician Tom Petty was reportedly unhappy when former Republican candidate Michele Bachmann used his song “American Girl” to kick off her 2011 campaign.
Rolling Stone reported that after the song was played at Bachmann's launch, Petty’s team “immediately sent the Bachmann campaign a cease and desist letter.”
Petty took similar steps when George Bush used his song "I Won't Back Down" at campaign events in 2000.
Wixen Music Publishing president Randall Wixen wrote to Bush's campaign, saying: "It has recently come to our attention that your presidential campaign has been using the above-referenced song in connection with your presidential bid. Please be advised that this use has not been approved...Any use made by you or your campaign creates, either intentionally or unintentionally, the impression that you and your campaign have been endorsed by Tom Petty, which is not true."
Eminem
US rapper Eminem sued New Zealand prime Minister John Key's political party for copyright infringement in 2014 over alleged use of the song "Lose Yourself" on Key's campaign.
Eminem's company Eight Mile claimed the song had been used on one of the prime minister's election campaign ads without permission. Key's party said it had legally purchased music that sounded like Eminem's track from a music company called Beatbox. Campaign manager Steven Joyce denied any wrongdoing, saying: "We think it's pretty legal, we think these guys are just having a crack and have a bit of an eye for the main chance because it's an election campaign."
Coldplay
Coldplay accused the New Zealand National Party of copyright infringement after it used a riff from the Coldplay song “Clocks” in a promotional DVD in 2007.
The band’s record label EMI ordered that 20,000 DVDs featuring the song be recalled and the party blamed its production company for the mistake.
Bruce Springsteen
Ronald Reagan used Bruce Springsteen's classic anthem "Born in the USA" during his 1984 presidential campaign despite the song's anti-war lyrics and Springsteen's own politics. Reagan referenced the singer in a speech, saying: "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside our hearts. It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen."
But Springsteen himself was not happy about the song being attached to the campaign, and reportedly requested Reagan's camp stopped using it.
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