Ramones Lawsuit
September 25th, 2007 by Hannah
A former drummer for the pioneers of punk-rock, the Ramones, is taking Apple, Wal-Mart and Johnny Ramone’s estate to court for allegedly selling his songs without permission.
Richard Reinhardt, who took Richie Ramone’s place in the band from 1983-1987, is after $900,000 in damages and a permanent injunction which bars the defendants from selling six songs he wrote for the band. He claims that Ramones Production, Inc. and the estate of band founder John Cummings (Johnny Ramone) took the songs without his consent and put them up for sale on the music services of Wal-Mart and Apple.
The suit was filed on September 22nd and reps for Wal-Mart and Apple had no comment.
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