Music World Gets Sued
January 8th, 2008 by Hannah
Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur and Will Smith – the different sounds of these guys pretty much run the gamut of the music industry. Yet they are being tied together by one big lawsuit. An old-school bluesman is suing the 3 musicians claiming that they all stole his song ‘Different Strokes’ without paying proper tribute or loot.
Sylvester ‘Syl Johnson’ Thompson, who played with Junior Wells and Howlin’ Wolf among others, alleges in the copyright infringement suit that Jacko’s ‘Blood on the Dance Floor’, Wills’ ‘Who Stole the DJ’ and Tupac’s ‘Peep Game’ all borrowed from his 1967 hit ‘Different Strokes’. He’s claiming that he hasn’t seen one cent from any of them and is seeking unspecified damages.
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