IS IT TRUE THAT GREEN DAY GoT SUED?

Question

some people said that green day got sued for copywriting well if you belive thats true can u show me prof caz i dont believe that

Answer 1

Man says he wrote Green Day's songs
He files complaint alleging copyright infringement

By ANITa burke
Mail Tribune

Hearing Green Day's "American Idiot" album took Paul McPike, a 32-year-old grocery store checker in Medford, right back to high school.

But it wasn't just the album's punk-pop indictment of authority that reminded him of being a teenager. He claimed to have sung all the songs for his classmates at Independence High School, an alternative school in Sutter Creek, Calif., back in 1992.

McPike, who has lived in Medford for four months and worked at a ski resort in South Lake Tahoe last winter, filed a copyright infringement complaint in U.S. District Court last week.

Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge John Cooney recommended dismissing the case, but added that McPike, who represented himself, could file an amended complaint detailing his copyright of the lyrics and music.

Although McPike's original two-page complaint claimed he composed both the lyrics and melodies in early 1992, the only evidence he submitted was a copy of the album and his claim that the words lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sings don't exactly match those printed on the album's cover.

McPike said he plans to continue researching copyright law and resubmit his case with additional evidence, which he declined to detail.

McPike said he has composed songs for his own amusement since high school and occasionally shares them with friends, but has never performed publicly. He theorizes that a friend must have recorded a cassette of him singing at home and somehow that recording reached Green Day.

"It was just disbelief every time I heard it on the radio," McPike said.

He wrote several letters to Warner Bros. Records and Green Day, but never got an answer, so proceeded with his suit, which asks for an unspecified share of the profits from the album and a concert CD/DVD, "Bullet in a Bible," featuring songs from the album.

Representative from Warner Bros. and Green Day couldn't be reached for comment.

Doug Schmor, a Medford attorney who handles some copyright cases but isn't involved in this one, said to make a legitimate copyright infringement case, a person would have to show written evidence of authorship that predates any other copyright. While that proof could be as simple as a signed and dated copyright statement, some artists send copies of their work through certified mail to document the date, he said. A registered copyright is the easiest to defend in court and obtaining one for original works isn't as expensive or complicated as people think, Schmor said.

Answer 2

yeah
"Most folks have occasionally heard a new song and thought, "Gee, I feel like I've heard this somewhere before." But it takes a special kind of person to take things to another level, by coming to the conclusion that they actually wrote the tune sometime in their distant past, says AOL Music.

Paul McPike, a 30-ish grocery store employee from Medford, OR, placed himself firmly in the latter category this week when he filed a lawsuit charging that Green Day's "American Idiot" album is entirely made up of songs that he wrote when he was in high school. McPike says that he used to regale his high school pals with the "original" versions of "Jesus of Suburbia" and other classics back in 1992, and believes that some devious ex-pal surreptitiously recorded one of his performances and traded them to Billie Joe Armstrong and co. for 30 pieces of silver (or at least unlimited access to Green Day's backstage deli trays).


A U.S. District Court Judge seemed to take McPike's pile of evidence -- which consisted entirely of a copy of the album and a claim that the lyrics sung on the album don't match those in the sleeve notes -- with a barrel of salt, but suggested he could file a more detailed copyright infringement complaint in the future. An interesting suggestion -- and one that jogs our memory of the elementary school writing class where we wrote that line about "buying a stairway to Heaven."





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Answer 3

I hope it is true, then maybe they will stop making albums and realize that they are sell-out's that have no talent...i mean no talent, they had to steal their talent haha, lmfao.