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Old 31 Jul 2019, 01:12   #1
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https://ultimateclassicrock.com/meat...wsuit-settled/


really????

how did that even get to court???
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Old 31 Jul 2019, 19:43   #2
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really????

how did that even get to court???
Agreed...Just ridiculous.
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Old 04 Aug 2019, 02:10   #3
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This was always such a vexatious crock .. and launched, not when IDAFL was No 1 around the world but 25 years later! Nor is it the only song using the words in its title. As to the "melody", I remember at the time the idiots brought their suit listening to the Sinclair/Molina version on YTube .. not a trace of the "soul" they claimed had been taken, and sounded nothing like Jim's composition .. who btw wrote IDAFL and brought it to Meat FFS.

Just such nonsense that there even WAS a case, that two great artists will have had to pay to defend it. Just hope the "settlement" was for one dollar ..
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Old 05 Aug 2019, 00:59   #4
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Not sure how Meat as performer was put through this suit. Steinman was the writer, composer, and producer. Meat added the heart and soul of the song, but as he himself has said he is not much of a song writer. I also read the suit was over "ownership" which seems to put the onus on Steinman. Also Jim used the line in 1983 on "Getting So Excited".
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Old 05 Aug 2019, 01:33   #5
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Well, one possible answer to why Meat was added to the case could be because he claimed, as part of asserting his rights to the Bat trademark in the 2006 lawsuit, that he wrote the third and fourth verses of the song, uncredited. (Given its length and atypical structure, I'd be hard pressed to identify the third and fourth verses myself, but the claim was made.)
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Old 06 Aug 2019, 10:42   #6
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Also Jim used the line in 1983 on "Getting So Excited".
Exactly what I was thinking.
Mental that that isn't even mentioned in defence, at least in the article here.

Also if it is similarity because of the brackets thing one could easily point out Bryan Adam's (Everything I Do) I Do It for You is similar too. However this type of title stuff had been common in musicals for several decades by then especially and Springsteen had used it even in the 70s too which is obviously what inspired Steinman.
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