On Friday, attorneys representing the Knack's Doug Fieger and Berton Averre — songwriters of the 1979 chart-topping hit "My Sharona" — filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles against the members of Run-DMC, claiming the rappers did not have permission to sample the song's core riff in one of their most recognizable tracks, "It's Tricky."
The filing — which also names Rick Rubin (who produced the cut for 1986's Raising Hell), Arista Records, Rush Groove Music, Rush Communications, online music retailers Yahoo, Amazon, Napster, iTunes and others as defendants — claims that Run-DMC engaged in the "unauthorized copying, reproduction and distribution of [the Knack's] musical composition and improperly [profiting from]" use of the sample, which the suit claims was "willfully, or with reckless disregard, unlawfully appropriated."
The document asserts that, because of Run-DMC's sampling of "My Sharona," Fieger and Averre have "suffered actual damages, including lost profits, lost opportunities, loss of goodwill, lost publicity, attorneys' fees and interest." The suit seeks unspecified damages and related legal fees, and characterizes the "signature" riff sampled in "It's Tricky" as "the essence" of the song.
No to w porę się zorientowali. Po dwudziestu latach zauważyli, że ktoś ukradł im sample. Podobno nie słyszeli tego kawałka wcześniej. Nie ma to jak być na bieżąco z rynkiem muzycznym :) Ciekawe co na to Bloodhound Gang, którzy coverowali pozwany kawałek. No i nie można zapomnieć sceny z filmu "Road Trip" gdy pijany Kyle Edwards (w tej roli DJ Qualls) tańczy przy tej piosence :)
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