In other news Don Henley and Glenn Frey have joined Joe Nieuwendyk and are filing a counter lawsuit against Black Water Rising for album cover and team logo art copyright infringement.
You would think they would be happy about someone playing their ****** song.
No way.
If a person had never heard this horrible music, there would've been a chance that they might've bought the CD by mistake (ie: based on the cover). The damage is clearly in the publicity. Any person that actually heard the music, would laugh at the idea of paying money to listen to it. Therefore, the Devils clearly hurt this guy's sales!
If a person had never heard this horrible music, there would've been a chance that they might've bought the CD by mistake (ie: based on the cover). The damage is clearly in the publicity. Any person that actually heard the music, would laugh at the idea of paying money to listen to it. Therefore, the Devils clearly hurt this guy's sales!
seriously, without having heard the song yet...are they right? if so, that’s ****** up and they absolutely should sue
I should say that I agree with this -- if the Devils used the music without a license, then they're clearly guilty of infringement -- but the $30m claim is retarded.
Copyright infringement is an interesting area, because the plaintiff doesn't have to show actual damages, and can elect for statutorily defined damages instead. Although I'm not a copyright attorney, I did take a copyright law class, and from what I recall, a willful infringement carries a maximum penalty of $150,000 per violation (it seems unlikely that they'd succeed in proving that the infringement was willful so the damages would be significantly less). Assuming 41 violations, that figure would be just over $6m. So that means this guy is claiming $30m in actual damages.
*But again, this is operating from my recollection.
"My music was basically stolen and put to work by a corporation for their monetary gain. They used my song to rally their team and fans before every home game and didn’t even bother to credit the band. They dismissed and ignored my honest attempts to rectify the situation in the hopes that I would just go away. They banked on the hope that I would become discouraged and lack the means to file a suit against them."
lol monetary gain
$30 million is a joke
HAHAHAHA you know what's funny? I thought that you wrote that making fun of the guy... I didn't realize those were his actual words. What a chode. My music was "basically" stolen... so was it basically stolen or actually stolen? Asshat.
The song sucks anyway. Generic rhythm guitar I'm sure they stole from another song + drums I could play in 8th grade + crazy random solo = garbage that shouldn't be paid for.
