Rock band The Knack sues Apple and others

Don't forget Cheech from "Up In Smoke" sung a similar tune, only he used the words "My Scah-roh-tum"!

"Uhhh... Sorry to burst your bubble, but Apple was the fastest growing company in the world at that point in time. 1986? The Mac was already on the market at that point....

Sheesh..."

Apple wasn't selling the song on ITMS in 1986.

Fact is Apple and the other companies didn't do anything wrong. I'm willing to bet that they had a contract with the IP holders of the Run DMC song that states that the IP holder owns the song in entirety and Apple isn't liable for any suits and so on that may incur in the future.

I really hope the Knack fails on all of their suits. They sucked and want to strike it rich because Run DMC is on iTunes and amazon now. Lame.

If they want to sue ANYONE, it has to be Run DMC. I mean, Apple and Amazon paid them right? WHY should they have to pay a second time?

Don't forget that Doug Fieger's brother is this guy:
http://www.fiegerlaw.com/

The Bloodhound Gang did a cover of "It's Tricky", does this make them in it too?

I believe the Knack would have had a case against RunDMC and their label had they acted within a couple years of "It's Tricky"'s release. However, I believe the statute of limitations has expired on them. As for going after all the companies selling the song online, well, it's just greed. It's a low risk gamble for the Knack and their shark of a lawyer to do this. If the judge disagrees and throws out the case, they haven't lost anything but lawyer time (and since the lawyer is the brother of the Knack's front man, I doubt they are getting charged the full rate here). If the judge allows it, it will only take one of the companies indicted to settle with them (which one of them would) for it to be cost effective.

This is why we need a "loser pays" system here in the US. To stop greedy shark lawyers from launching frivolous lawsuits.

I guess it's the way things work these days. Sue everybody. I do think the people that sample should come to some sort of arrangement with the owner of the copyright before releasing the song. After the song becomes a success (in the Verve case) things become all the more difficult.
Still I don't think the companies selling the song have anything to do with the copyright infringement itself.

It's one note (repeated once an octave higher, then again in the lower register), and then two power chords. Which means the Knack is suing over a grand total of five notes. Whoo hoo.

posters 3, 4, and 14:

whhhooooooooooossssssssshhhh

This blogger wishes she could say the same about "My Sharona"

I laughed so hard!!!! Thank you!

Um, Tim, I think she only really meant "these companies" in an all-encompassing way (since most of 'em really didn't exist in '86) and didn't mean to include Apple except for the "weren't in the music business" part. Use your head, man!

Back to music, this whole thing is pointless and silly. Too bad law firms won't see it that way. All they'll see is dollar signs! And to all the posters making bad comments about Run-DMC and The Knack... I didn't especially like these groups, either. But, like them or not, they had a hand in some way in influencing the groups and artists you do like!

My 2¢.