mrdeadfolx
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"Will Bon Jovi soon be $400 billion poorer? Does Bon Jovi even have $400 billion? Unlikely on both counts.
by Elizabeth Bromstein
I think this Boston songwriter is livin' on a prayer
A Boston songwriter by the name of Bart Steele is suing Turner Broadcasting System and Bon Jovi for $400 billion. No, you didn't read that wrong. And it's not a typo, which is what I thought when I first read it. And clearly this Bart Steele guy is NOT AT ALL CRAZY.
The story in the press is that Steele has filed a federal suit, claiming the lyrics and chorus of Bon Jovi's I Love This Town from the album Lost Highway are far too similar to his (Man I Really) Love This Team, written in 2004.
Steele, according to Music Radar, tried to sell (Man I Really) Love this Team to MLB (Major League Baseball) and the Red Sox, for commercial use and, I assume, failed. Then, in 2007, Bon Jovi released Lost Highway, featuring the song I Love This Town, which was subsequently used for an MLS promotional video. Coincidence? Steele thinks not.
He thinks, says The Guardian, that Jon Bon Jovi either received a copy of (Man I Really) Love This Team, or else heard Steele busking outside Fenway Park while the star was campaigning for John Kerry in 2004.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compare the two tracks as Steele's version is not, at time of writing, available on his band's MySpace page (it appears to have been recently removed, since every article I've read links to it and tells me I can find it there). But the majority vote among those who have heard it seems to be that the similarities are far from staggering.
Steele forwarded a copy of the lawsuit to Antimusic. His justification for this figure is as follows. "Bart is requesting damages as authorized by the copyright law. As intent will be easy to prove, we are seeking the statutorily authorized amount of $100,000 per cd sold. Just under 4 million cds have been sold to date. This totals almost $400 billion." It further states that "Bart intends to give 99% of this recovery to musicians' rights organizations."
Which means that he will keep only $4 billion for himself. That's very magnanimous of him, don't you think? He could almost bail the U.S. out of its financial crisis with the other $396 billion."
"Will Bon Jovi soon be $400 billion poorer? Does Bon Jovi even have $400 billion? Unlikely on both counts.
by Elizabeth Bromstein
I think this Boston songwriter is livin' on a prayer
A Boston songwriter by the name of Bart Steele is suing Turner Broadcasting System and Bon Jovi for $400 billion. No, you didn't read that wrong. And it's not a typo, which is what I thought when I first read it. And clearly this Bart Steele guy is NOT AT ALL CRAZY.
The story in the press is that Steele has filed a federal suit, claiming the lyrics and chorus of Bon Jovi's I Love This Town from the album Lost Highway are far too similar to his (Man I Really) Love This Team, written in 2004.
Steele, according to Music Radar, tried to sell (Man I Really) Love this Team to MLB (Major League Baseball) and the Red Sox, for commercial use and, I assume, failed. Then, in 2007, Bon Jovi released Lost Highway, featuring the song I Love This Town, which was subsequently used for an MLS promotional video. Coincidence? Steele thinks not.
He thinks, says The Guardian, that Jon Bon Jovi either received a copy of (Man I Really) Love This Team, or else heard Steele busking outside Fenway Park while the star was campaigning for John Kerry in 2004.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compare the two tracks as Steele's version is not, at time of writing, available on his band's MySpace page (it appears to have been recently removed, since every article I've read links to it and tells me I can find it there). But the majority vote among those who have heard it seems to be that the similarities are far from staggering.
Steele forwarded a copy of the lawsuit to Antimusic. His justification for this figure is as follows. "Bart is requesting damages as authorized by the copyright law. As intent will be easy to prove, we are seeking the statutorily authorized amount of $100,000 per cd sold. Just under 4 million cds have been sold to date. This totals almost $400 billion." It further states that "Bart intends to give 99% of this recovery to musicians' rights organizations."
Which means that he will keep only $4 billion for himself. That's very magnanimous of him, don't you think? He could almost bail the U.S. out of its financial crisis with the other $396 billion."
