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Re: GNR Sued For Copying Songs
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertai … WT20091005
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band Guns N' Roses for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album "Chinese Democracy."
Guns N' Roses and Universal Music Group's Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. arm of Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to songs by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss.
Singer Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss' songs -- "Wherever You Are" and "A Strangely Isolated Place" -- for a song used on the band's last album called "Riad N' the Bedouins," according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday but made available on Monday, seeks $1 million in damages. A spokesperson for Interscope-Geffen A&M, owned by Vivendi's Universal Music Group, was not available for comment.
"Chinese Democracy," the band's first new album in 17 years that was released last November, resulted in disappointing sales.
Besides Rose, the only original member in the band, the other current and former band members named in the suit include guitarist Brian Carroll, better known as "Buckethead," bassist Tommy Stinson, and Robin Finck, who currently plays lead guitar with rock act Nine Inch Nails.
Re: GNR Sued For Copying Songs
They were posted here ages ago, there was a big thread at mygnr not long after the album came out because someone had noticed the intro to Riad was the same as the intro to a song.
I assumed it was a sample they both decided to use, rather than GNR sampling a Ulrich Schnauss creation. But when you hear the kind of music Ulrich Schnauss makes, its quite possible he came up with it himself.
Deeply embarressing though, the 15 year in the making album is going to be taking another kicking through the media for plagiarism 
Re: GNR Sued For Copying Songs
Re: GNR Sued For Copying Songs
ok the first vid is waaay to generic, but the 2nd video, Ill be damned if the first couple of seconds isnt the exact same as rhiad.
Upon further listen, Id say GNR are fucked in this case. Oh and by GNR I mean Axl and the 30 other studio techs/
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