Copy "Artist - Song name" to the clipboard

The aim is to assign a shortcut for copying the artist and name of currently playing or selected song from iTunes to the clipboard.
How it can be done?

I usually recommend not manipulating the clipboard via AppleScript - not because it can't be done (it can), but because there are usually better options.
In any case, since I don't know what you're ultimately trying to do...
tell application "iTunes"
          if player state is playing then
                    set TA to artist of (get current track)
                    set TN to name of (get current track)
set the clipboard to TA & " - " & TN
          end if
end tell
The issue is assigning this to a key shortcut, which AppleScript can't do on its own.

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Since this script does not rename the files, make a backup of your files before running it.
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tell application "Finder"
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end tell
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    set eof F2 to 0
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    close access F2
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Message was edited by: Pierre L.

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