Massachusetts-based musician Samuel Bartley Steele is suing a popular rock group for allegedly stealing the lyrics to his song "(Man I Really) Love This Team."
Sound familiar to you? He is suing more than the band, he is suing everybody.
Bon Jovi is the band, and the song is " I Love This Town." Is the song worth $400 billion dollars? I don't think that any song is worth $400 billion, unless of course I wrote it, and was raking in all that dough.
In court documents reportedly obtained by the website, Antimusic.com, Steele said, "As intent will be easy to prove, we are seeking the statutorily authorized amount of $100,000 (GBP54,054) per CD sold. Just under 4 million CDs have been sold to date. This totals almost $400 billion."
Other defendants include Jon Bongiovi, Richard Sambora, William
Falcone, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
("ASCAP") Fox Television Networks, Major League Baseball / MLB
Productions, A&E /AETV, Bon Jovi, AEG Live, Mark Shimmel Music,
Vector Management, Island Records / Island Def Jam Records, Aggressive
Music / Sony ATV Tunes, Bon Jovi Publishing, Universal Music Publishing
Group, Universal Polygram, Pretty Blue Songs, and The Bigger Picture
Cinema Co, as well as the owners of every ballpark that the ad at issue
was played in, and all of Time Warner's Networks that played the ad in
more than 74 countries around the world promoting defendants MLB and
Bon Jovi. This list of defendants may grow, since it does not yet
include parties responsible for playing the ad on the internet.
Really? $400 billion, isn't that a little excessive? Who do you believe?
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