Yellowcard Lawyer Releases Statement Regarding Lawsuit

"We know how this looks and only care to a point. Furthermore, we're not greedy and going for MILLIONS, we're going for what the law allows, which is millions. Thanks"

But honestly, it's probably a tough situation to be put in.

 

Glad to see the Lights and Sounds era guys working together again s/

 

I love Yellowcard, but this is bullshit. Someone should go through their records with a fine toothed comb to find a song that has some similarities to something previously written. This is music, people are going to stumble across similar song structure, most likely unintentionally. Had Lucid Dreams been a clear copy of the song, that would be one thing, but it is not. Terrible lawsuit, I hate that they are doing this.

 

gross

 

I dislike Ryan Key more and more these days.

 

Money grab if I have ever seen one.

 

Seems reasonable to me.

 

In order to win the lawsuit, Yellowcard can't just argue that the two songs are similar -- they have to prove that the similarity is because Juice WRLD specifically copied their song. In order to do that, they have to show he had reasonable access to the song, either through direct or circumstantial evidence, and may try to rely on the inverse ratio rule (which holds that the more similarity you can show between the songs, the less direct evidence of access you need, since you can infer high amounts of similarity are less likely to be coincidental). Juice WRLD's defense presumably would have been that he'd never heard the Yellowcard song, or if he had, he wasn't thinking about it when he wrote Lucid Dreams. Now his estate will have to make the argument for him if they choose not to settle, which is tricky, since he's no longer around to confirm or deny anything, so there are now big evidentiary issues in this case.

 

I am just picturing lawyers digging through a dead man's computer to try to prove he listened to Yellowcard and that's super depressing.

 

He is not the only one being sued.

 

That makes it more palatable then...

 

This is so dumb and shitty.

 

Travis McCoy not happy with this

 

They’re getting absolutely shredded out there

 

Oh well good think travie McCoy spoke up, we were all wondering his take on it all

 

So we're allowed to comment our opinions, but he needs to be called out for issuing his?

 

Yeah sharing your opinion on a message board full of other no names is definitely the same thing as writing a whole rant about it, and tagging them, for your 200k followers

And honestly no I don’t expect literally anyone to give a shit about my opinion on this lawsuit. But he clearly does.

 

Like this was his follow up post lmao

but yeah I guess his opinion deserves to be taken seriously

 

he's right tho

this whole thing is some really low shit

 

I genuinely don’t know how it works but since it’s a copyright if they just “backed off” wouldn't their copyright be at risk? Isn’t that the whole thing of why they’re pursuing it in the first place?

 

some day i want to be able to own my own basic chord progression

 

It continues

 

god that’s so embarrassing.


For that person I mean. What a terrible human but also idiot