Jon Bon Jovi: $400 Billion Lawsuit Over Song Lyrics
Jon Bon Jovi is being sued for $400 billion (yes with a “b”) by a Boston musician, Samuel Bartley Steele, who says Bon Jovi stole the lyrics from his song “(Man I Really) Love This Team.”
Steele claims Bon Jovi ripped off the song “(Man I Really) Love This Team” he penned for his favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, and then tried to sell to MLS (Major League Baseball) for commercial use in 2004.
Steele, who fronts the Chelsea City Council band, hears too much similarity between his song and Bon Jovi’s song “I Love This Town” which was on their 2007 album “Lost Highway” and used for none other than MLS promotions.
Steele is going for a copyright violation and says that he is seeking the statutorily authorized amount of $100,000 per CD sold. Just under 4 million CDs have been sold to date so this totals almost $400 billion.
Take a listen to “(Man I Really) Love This Team” and “I Love This Town” and see if you hear a similarity worth $400 billion.
“I know I’m the little fish and they’re the big fish, but they f**ked with the wrong piranha. I want credit, acknowledgement and an apology. I know that I’m right,” Bartley told the Boston Herald Monday.
what the f**k is going on in this guy head?? He thinks that bon jovi wrote the song especially for the tbs commercial that promotes baseball!! he should investigate a little bit before open his mouth… That song it’s on their latest cd “lost highway” AND the two songs have NOTHING in common, except the words “i” “love” and “this” and i think there’s millions of songs that uses those words… i think the guy’s angry because the MLS didn’t use his song that was actually composed inspired by baseball…