Donald Trump may be as heartbroken as Adele after failing to win Monday's Iowa caucuses, but there's good news for Republican businessman running for president: He can continue playing the singer's anguished anthems – at least for now – at his rallies, even if she disapproves of him doing so.

A representative for the "Hello" singer told news outlets Monday the border-wall-promoting, Muslim-immigration-concerned candidate doesn't have her permission to play the music at rallies, but according to legal experts, her blessing currently is unnecessary.

Experts in copyright law say most venues where Trump holds rallies already have a blanket performing license, through which event-hosting or entertainment-providing places like universities and bars gain the right to play vast swaths of musical content, immunizing him from legal consequences.

"A public performance of the musical work generally – with complicated exceptions – requires licensing, which most public venues have," says Rebecca Tushnet, a Georgetown University law professor.

Adele is listed on the roster of Broadcast Music Inc., one of the largest public performance organizations, "so the venue's license would likely protect the campaign from a copyright infringement suit," University of Michigan law professor Jessica Litman says.

If political campaigns host an event at a venue without a blanket BMI license – such as on the bed of a flatbed truck – they can purchase a program license or a blanket license that would cover multiple events.

Failing to acquire a license could yield a lawsuit, such as faces former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for playing the Survivor song "Eye of the Tiger" during a rally with anti-same-sex-marriage Kentucky county court clerk Kim Davis, though legal defenses, such as claims of fair use, remain.

K-12 schools that host political events often don't have their own blanket performing licenses, but special copyright defenses exist for assemblies and teaching, says Litman, though the matter would be mooted if the Trump campaign had either a program or blanket license.

Could Adele simply amend her blanket license deal with BMI to ban Trump from leaning on a venue's license? That's where things could get technical.

Deborah Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says BMI’s standard blanket venue license – available online – contains a clause that appears to allow Adele an option to withdraw Trump’s right to play certain songs, either by initiating legal action or through a claim “that BMI does not have the right to license the performing rights in such work.”

But Robert Brauneis, a George Washington University law professor, says "a venue like a stadium does not want to purchase a 'blanket license' from BMI, only to find out that there is a list of hundreds of songs that it can't allow to be played at particular types of events – that's the kind of administrative nightmare that blanket licenses are designed to avoid," he says.

The record label that holds the copyright to Adele's music, he says, "could withdraw her songs from BMI altogether, but then she would forego the public-performance income that BMI distributes and would not practically be able to go around collecting for public performances herself."

"The point of one of these blanket licenses is that it allows a venue to play anything in the repertoire of the performing rights society," says Columbia University law professor Jane Ginsburg.

The standard licensing deals "make life easier for the songwriters, except in cases like this," she says.

BMI says Adele has not contacted the company about Trump’s use of her songs, so for the moment Trump’s choice of music is unfettered. But if Adele does contact them, the company says, there’s a secondary avenue for muffling the Trump campaign playlist.

BMI says it has special licensing agreements with political campaigns, including Trump’s – and the licenses say “a specific work may be excluded from this license if notice is received from a BMI songwriter or publisher objecting to the use.”

The company’s standard blanket licenses for venues do not say those licenses are overridden by a political entities license, but BMI spokeswoman Jodie Thomas says that would be the case, even though venue licenses cover a wide range of events at a specific location.

Though there’s the apparent loophole of leaning on a venue’s blanket license if restrictions are placed on a political entities license, Thomas says doing so “would not be appropriate.”

If Adele contacts BMI, Thomas says, “BMI would, in turn, communicate the detail to the campaign and the removed work would not be licensed by BMI for use at any of the candidate's campaign-related events.”

She adds: “If Donald Trump is in a venue and a song randomly plays over the speakers that’s a different thing,” and may be allowed under a venue’s license.

Adele's legal team does not currently appear to be threatening legal action, as many musicians have against other political candidates in the past with cease-and-desist letters. That may be because embarrassing a politician oftentimes does the trick – though scholars note Trump doesn't blush easily.

In addition to seeking to invoke licensing provisions, a lawsuit from Adele could accuse Trump of falsely claiming her endorsement, in violation of the Lanham Act governing trademarks, "but she'd be unlikely to win it, since consumers don't seem to be in any danger of believing that she endorsed Trump," Litman says, noting a MasterCard lawsuit against former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for using the word "priceless" in a 2000 ad failed for that reason.

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Things might be different, however, if Trump – who at times seems to relish bad press – were to react to Adele's objection by adopting her music as his campaign's theme song, Brauneis says.