Submitted by theizzz t3_10lgd2q in nottheonion
MadeFromNews t1_j5wp2pf wrote
Reason for the lawsuit:
BMG’s lawyer alleges that “My Poops” infringes on Black Eyed Peas’ surprise 2005 hit single, “My Humps,” 75% of whose publishing rights belongs to BMG thanks to a corporate acquisition.
The suit claims — and a review of each song’s Genius annotation confirms — that the two compositions bear a strong resemblance.
“First, the title of the infringing work is ‘My Poops,’ which is an obvious play on the name of the copyrighted composition, ‘My Humps,'” wrote BMG’s lawyer, Seth L. Berman, of Abrams Fensterman LLP.
Berman goes on to list other similarities, including the melody, countermelody, lyrics, chord progression and the use of a lead singer who “uses a similar delivery and vocal inflections as used by Fergie on the original sound recording.”
Xavier_Lights t1_j5zipz1 wrote
Ok. But won't they be protected under the fair use parody law since it's is less of a resemblance than the dumb Starbucks store that was only shutdown due lack of permits to sell food.
Fanwhip t1_j66c2vq wrote
Watching it (the cringe) feels like lots of paraody for the song.
The whole argument of "sound/lyric/candance" feels like music law needs some rewriting as there is literally only so many notes/so many beats. and if we wanna go "who owns what" then they should owe some older muscians money as the beats they use allot of the time has been done before. Music law is a big joke when it comes to the defense of "the notes going Fa so la te do is mine i made it" when the notes are the only notes used by anyone.
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