The complaint goes on to note that the 20-year-old rapper would have been in the fifth grade in 2006 - the very year “Holly Wood Dies” was released as part of Yellowcard’s Gold-certified album Lights and Sounds. Most prominently, it notes that the rapper has expressed his appreciation for the subgenre known as “emo pop rock” - “the precise genre of Yellowcard’s music” - in various interviews, including one in which he is quoted saying he “listened to and educated himself in Emo pop rock music” in order to impress a girl he had a crush on in the fifth grade. To establish access - another key criteria for copyright infringement cases - the complaint goes on to highlight several links between Juice WRLD and the music of Yellowcard. Beyond that, everything we have to say is in the Complaint.” As alleged in the Complaint, this is not just a generic Emo Rap song, but is a blatant copy of significant original compositional elements of Holly Wood Died in several respects. That notice was pretty much ignored leaving them with no real choice. They put all of the parties on notice a long while ago and gave them every opportunity to try to resolve it. Yellowcard’s attorney, Richard Busch, issued a statement about the lawsuit in which he explained, “This was not a lawsuit the guys wanted to file. “The high degree of objective similarity between the Original Work and the Infringing Work extends well beyond the possibility of coincidence and could only reasonably be the result of an act of copying,” it concludes.Ĭopyright Chaos? 'Dark Horse' Verdict Could Lead to New Wave of Lawsuits In establishing substantial similarity, the complaint includes a chart analyzing the two compositions and notes a number of common elements including hooks, vocal melodies and a distinctive “melodic idiosyncrasy” known as a melisma, which the plaintiffs claim appears in a “parallel position” in both songs. The Infringing Work and Infringing Sound Recording are not only substantially similar to the Original Work, but in some places virtually identical.” “The Infringing Work and Infringing Sound Recording directly misappropriates quantitatively and qualitatively important portions of Plaintiffs’ Original Work in a manner that is easily recognizable to the ordinary observer.
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“Defendants copied the Original Work without license or consent, and have exploited the subsequent Infringing Work and Infringing Sound Recording to their collective benefit without regard to Plaintiffs’ rights and to Plaintiffs’ detriment,” the complaint reads. Danny Lee Snodgress Jr.), along with his publishers Taz Taylor Beats, Artist 101 Publishing Group and publishing administrator Kobalt Music Services producer Nicholas Mira, along with his publishers Nick Mira Publishing, Electric Feel Music and publishing administrator Songs of Universal “Lucid Dreams” publisher BMG Rights Management record label Grade A Productions and Grade A’s parent company, Interscope Records. In addition to Juice WRLD, co-named defendants include “Lucid Dreams” co-writer Taz Taylor (a.k.a. Moreover, plaintiffs claim that in addition to recording revenue, they are owed damages from Juice WRLD’s concert tours and other public appearances given that the “overwhelming success” of “Lucid Dreams” launched the rapper’s career and provided him “substantial opportunities to tour and perform around the world.”ĬeCe Peniston Accuses Lizzo of Copyright InfringementĪ representative for Juice WRLD could not be reached at the time of publishing. They’re asking for damages in excess of $15 million and a “running royalty and/or ownership share” on all future exploitations related to the song or, alternatively, statutory damages “for each act of copyright infringement” and for defendants to be “permanently enjoined” from exploiting “Lucid Dreams” in the future. District Court in California, former Yellowcard members William Ryan Key, Peter Michael Mosely, Longineu Warren Parsons and Sean Michael Wellman-Mackin allege Juice WLRD and his collaborators copied “melodic elements” from their 2006 song “Holly Wood Died” for the rapper’s blockbuster 2018 single without permission.
Higgins) has been sued by members of the now-disbanded rock group Yellowcard for copyright infringement over his breakthrough single “Lucid Dreams.”Īccording to a complaint filed Monday (Oct.
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