Yellowcard Band • Page 179

“As if anyone listened to lights and sounds”

it sold more than literally anything Radke has ever put out across every shitty band he’s been in.


Go off Ronald

 

and this

 

I really am not a fan of all these lawsuits based on "similarities," the Blurred Lines case really did open the floodgates in a bad way

 

wait is that true?? That’s wild if so

Who asa is that another lawsuit happening?! I don’t think I heard that one. I do hear it..but I would have said more clearly inspired by that era more than that specific song but again I’m musically dumb so I’m not pretending to be an expert here

 

I don't think there's a lawsuit yet

 

I didn’t do an extensive dive on any of his bands but at a glance, it charted higher at release than any Radke release.

 

A snap reaction to most lawsuits. I’ll admit my mind went there when I first heard about it too. It’s just the way it comes off at first, especially when it hits the news wire. Obviously there’s a lot more going on here but the common person likely won’t think about it more than that.

 

I suppose, but of all the ways to 'get money,' paying a lawyer to sue someone is one dumb-as-hell way to do it.

(And I think patents and lawsuits like this are silly af. Music should be about taking and morphing and using things from the past into new works of art.)

 

Different scenario but same principle

 

It was a joke reply to whoever said it was a "bad look for the band", like obviously it's a "bad look"- that's what lawsuits are, but it's just funny to me to think of YC being like "hmm this song with a billion listens on Spotify ripped one of our songs off, maybe we should let it go because it Looks Bad", especially considering they aren't even a band anymore.

 

Didn't he cancel one of his last tours because no one came

 

I feel like Falling In Reverse has waaaaay more fans than they should.

 

First time I heard Sam Smith’s Stay With Me, I said to my wife that that it sounded like Tom Perry’s I Won’t Back Down.

Sometimes a band or artist can copy, or even unintentionally get a melody stuck in their head without even realizing the source.

Its good to protect artists, original song writers and such. I do hope it doesn’t get carried away though. There must be some degree of coincidence or burden of proof. I feel like the sampling world must have resolve this issue over the past few years.

 

Richard S. Busch - King & Ballow Entertainment Law/Intellectual Property

Mr. Busch obtained a jury award of $7.4 million in favor of the heirs of Marvin Gaye against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke arising out of the unlawful copying of Marvin Gaye's classic hit Got to Give It Up in the song Blurred Lines.

Pretty big name entertainment lawyer representing them, it is in fact the same lawyer from the "Blurred Lines" case.

 

The Sam Smith example is certainly an interesting one. Petty and Lynne ended up getting credit on the track even though Petty himself said that he didn't believe Smith plagiarized the song.

 

Love YC but the idea of a pop punk band suing over a borrowed idea is really something

 

Ronnie threatened to steal my girlfriend. Folks, we’ve made it.

 

Lol, I love that multiple fans of his were like “He only went to jail once! Get your facts straight!” Stan culture is a hell of a thing.

 

He also made a weather joke after realizing I was a meteorologist. Riveting content

 

condolences to you and your "stolen" girl

 

Could have been unintentional, but it was so obviously similar.

 

Right, and that right there is the whole point. Similarities are bound to happen, but it doesn't directly equate to a ripoff

 

Is this shade?

 

I really can't hear the similarities between that song and Hollywood Died. Now I'm mad I listened to this awful song lol