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Songs that have resulted in lawsuits, either for lyrics or for borrowing too much of the music.
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"Oh Me So Horny," 2 Live Crew
Broward County police hauled in 2Live Crew into court because the album As Nasty As They Want To Be was banned in Broward County Florida due to its obscene lyrical content. But the case and Broward County's anti-obscenity laws were struck down and thrown out because the song was protected under free speech.
Celeste
"Old Man Down The Road," John Fogerty
Fogerty was actually sued by Saul Zaentz, the owner to the rights of Credence Clearwater Revival songs, for plagiarizing "Run Through The Jungle"--a song which John Fogerty wrote.
Agrimorfee
"The Old Man Down The Road," John Fogerty
The Fantasy Records label's tyrant, the evil Saul Zaentz, claimed (falsely!) that "The Old Man Down The Road," from John Fogerty's album "Centerfield," shared too much of its refrain with "Run Through The Jungle," one of Fogerty's selections as leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, to which Zaentz had bullied Fogerty into forfeiting the copyright as a condition of releasing him from his label contract. Zaentz litigated against Fogerty, in a petition titled "Fantasy Incorporated V. Fogerty," but Fogerty won that case. Fogerty then cross-petitioned against Zaentz, seeking the costs of his successful defense against Fantasy Incorporated's original petition; in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned lower-court rulings, and Fogerty won outright.
Parker Gabriel
"Only Want To Be With You ," Hootie And The Blowfish
A tribute to Bob Dylan - NOT!. A lyric line describes "on a little Dylan." The verse then references three songs on Bob Dylan's 1974 Blood on the Tracks album. The lyric "sittin' on a fence" quotes Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now." The song then references and quotes extensively from the next song on the album, Dylan's "Idiot Wind". The song then mentions Dylan's "Tangled up in Blue."However, Dylan felt that the references to his lyrics infringed on his original work, and he was not impressed by it.. He slapped a lawsuit on these hosers for stealing lyrics from his songs, and ended up getting a big settlement. But then again, since does any of Hootie's music have an ounce of originality anyway? That stuff is bland and pedestrian. You'd get better poetry from reading the label on a can of peaches.
Hootie Pootie Poo Pah Pah!
"Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song...," Fall Out Boy
In actual fact, although Fall Out Boy did have a song originally going by the title "I Liked You A Whole Lot Better Before You Became A F***ing MySpace Whore", this one had originally been titled "My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are My Temptations". A clever play on words of course, but courting legal disaster (no pun intended) with the classic Motown vocal group.
neptunevsmars
"Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song...," Fall Out Boy
In actual fact, although Fall Out Boy did have a song originally going by the title "I Liked You A Whole Lot Better Before You Became A F***ing MySpace Whore", this one had originally been titled "My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are My Temptations". A clever play on words of course, but courting legal disaster (no pun intended) with the classic Motown vocal group.
neptunevsmars
"our lawyers made us change the name of this song..," Fall Out Boy
okay so the original title of this song was "i liked you much better before you became a myspace whore" but when they went to record their lawyers saild that the song was offensive or that they couldn't mention myspace or something gay like that and so they decided to change it to "our lawyers made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued"
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