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“This includes, for example, any suggestion that the two baseball analogies in Nickelback’s work are evidence that the band copied Johnston’s lyric ‘might buy the Cowboys’ professional football team’ simply because both are ‘references to sports’”, Pitman wrote. But the ruling said that after a review of the lyrics, that accusation at times “borders on the absurd.” Johnston, the lead singer of a Texas band called Snowblind Revival, claimed the two songs shared many closely related lyrics about rock star lifestyles, making huge amounts of money and having famous friends. You can get tickets to catch them live here.Ed Sheeran Copyright Accusers Can't Stage 'Let's Get It On' Performance in Courtroom… Dates start in June in Quebec City, Quebec in Canada. Nickelback will be touring this summer in support of their latest album, Get Rollin'.
Johnston stated that his band Snowblind Revival had performed at the same venue as Nickelback, but the judge claimed that was not enough proof to show "access." “Johnston has presented no probative evidence that defendants had a reasonable opportunity to hear plaintiff’s work," stated the judge. In his initial suit from 2020, Johnston claimed that the Nickelback song had lifted "substantial portions" of his song, including "tempo, song form, melodic structure, harmonic structure and lyrical themes." In the judge's ruling, he stated that Johnston had failed to show where Nickelback would have had access to the song. Gibbons lends some spoken word vocals to the track, while the video is filled with celebs including Gene Simmons, Kid Rock, Wayne Gretzky, Ted Nugent, Chuck Liddell, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. which topped the Billboard 200 Album chart upon its release. It was featured on the group's All the Right Reasons album. 4 at Mainstream Rock radio and crossed over to hit No. Nickelback's "Rockstar" remains one of the band's signature songs and biggest hits. READ MORE: 10 Nickelback Songs That Are Really Heavy The judge offered that the only real similarities were broader cliches that were “outlandish stereotypes and images associated with being a huge, famous, rock star.” Further showing that such themes could not be monopolized by one songwriter, he utilized a study of 17 other popular songs that shared similar rock star themes, including The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" and Poison's "Rockstar." He continued, “This includes, for example, any suggestion that the two baseball analogies in Nickelback’s work are evidence that the band copied Johnston’s lyric ‘might buy the Cowboys’ professional football team simply because both are ‘references to sports.'" “Where both songs evoke similar themes, they are rendered dissimilar through the vivid detail of the original expression in Nickelback’s lyrics.” “Stated simply, they do not sound alike,” the judge wrote in his order Thursday (March 16). One of Johnston's primary arguments centered on the themes of their respective songs, but Pitman ruled that not only did the songs not sound alike, but there wasn't really an overlap lyrically either.
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