Lee and DeMeritt
have recently sued Lil Nas X and Cardi B for Copyright Infringement asserting that X and B’s “Rodeo” has a substantially
similar sound and feel to their “Broad Day.” They explained that both songs
appear the same in many ways. For instance, they both are 142 bpm, Rodeo has
“guitar and wind instruments to invoke a certain aesthetic that’s set against
hip-hop ingredients derived from digital drum and bass components,” and “the
rhythmic guitar part outlining chords of Rodeo is replaced just with a single
note line playing ascending and descending scale moving with the change in
chord.” It means the two songs are from the same genre.
Nevertheless, Lil
Nas X and Cardi B might be planning to defend their Rodeo – a pretty good song
managed to grab the attention of Don Lee and Glen Keith DeMeritt III, whose
“gwenXdonelee4-142” beat was incorporated into Sakrite Duexe and Puretoreefa’s
track Broad Day. But at present, the defendants seem threatened due to the
“Blurred Lines” copyright decision made in 2015.
Back in the year
2015, the Marvin Gaye estate secured an unusual copyright verdict against Robin
Thicke and Pharrell Williams over their hit song “Blurred Lines.” The Gaye
estate successfully argued that although “Blurred Lines” didn’t copy the Gaye’s
songs, it cloned the feeling of Gaye’s music, i.e., this song by Thicke and Williams
reminded listeners of Gaye. Strange, but the argument ended into Gaye’s
favor.
Since it required
musicians to pretend that they have had no musical influences, lest they come
across a similar lawsuit, it was a catastrophically bad verdict. People who pointed
it out are known as “alarmists” by copyright maximalists, who are sure that
this ruling wouldn’t spawn musical copyright trolls that would shake down
musicians for huge payouts from hit songs as almost everyone, after all, is
associated in some or other way to the songs that came prior to it.
At present, it is
predicted that the matter will be settled with the “beat creators getting a
songwriting credit,” and therefore, a remarkable percentage of the songwriting
royalties as that would be cheaper than the expenses and concerns for going to
court. Nonetheless, if X and B do this, you can bet that Lee and DeMeritt will
not be the last ones to file a stupid and ridiculous case of this type.
Besides, the “Blurred Lines” decision will become a strong legal way for
grifters to impose yet another tax on working and successful musicians. ✅ For
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