Foo Fighters Take on Marvel's Men

[glokstadt]

I find this very interesting... hmmm...


Natalie Finn
Wed Feb 20, 3:58 PM ET


Los Angeles (E! Online) - It's times like these in which the Foo Fighters call their lawyers.

The Dave Grohl-fronted foursome sued Marvel Studios for copyright infringement Wednesday, accusing the production arm of the famed comic book empire of using two of their songs for a TV trailer without the band's permission.

Per the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, "substantial excerpts" of the tunes "Best of You" and "Free Me," both off the 2005 album In Your Honor, were used in a teaser for the upcoming animated series Wolverine and the X-Men.

The song samples "were copied directly from the Foo Fighters' sound recordings of those two songs" and people can watch the trailer online, the suit alleges.

Wolverine and the X-Men's fellow producers, First Serve International, Toonz Animation India and First Serve Toonz were also named as defendants.

Grohl, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shifflett, fresh off of Grammy wins for Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Rock Album, are seeking unspecified damages, attorneys' fees and an injunction preventing Marvel from getting the best of them—i.e. using those songs--again.

The suit was also filed on behalf of Roswell Records Inc., which owns the master recordings.

Foo Fighters' latest album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, has sold more than 530,000 copies and its number-one single, "The Pretender," spent a record 17 weeks atop Billboard's Modern Rock chart.



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[plagiarism]

It's just not right that Kurt Cobain died so that "The Pretender" could top the charts for 17 freaking weeks.

[SwampThing]

I have to back Foo Fighters on this one. Based on the co-defenedents it looks like Marvel Studios may have outsourced the project to save money, money that could have been spent paying for the proper use of the songs. Seems Marvel are the cheap bastards in this instance.

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[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
<br>It's just not right that Kurt Cobain died so that "The Pretender" could top the charts for 17 freaking weeks.
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Agreed!

[gpow]

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
<br>It's just not right that Kurt Cobain died so that "The Pretender" could top the charts for 17 freaking weeks.
[/quote]

I just call them Eddie Money 09