Beatallica Slapped With "Cease-And-Desist" Order
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Beatallica, the Internet sensation who combine the work of The Beatles with the sound of early Metallica, have been slapped with a "cease-and-desist" order by The Beatles' music publisher over their "unlawful use" of the group's compositions "without authorization or license."
In the notice of willful copyright infringement, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, copyright owner and music publisher of "compositions written, individually and jointly, by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey" claims that Beatallica's use of The Beatles' compositions "without the express authorization or license has caused and continues to cause substantial and irreparable injury amd is in direct violation of Sony/ATV's rights."
When Metallica frontman James Hetfield was asked last year by Kerrang! magazine if he's ever heard Beatallica, he replied, "Yeah. I heard that. That was amazing. Someone put a lot of thought and talent into that man!" Asked if he was being sarcastic, he said, "No, not at all. I heard it online. It was about a year ago, or more. It was pretty amazing. It was pretty well thought out so I'm glad there's people like that in the world to do that and it's very entertaining for us, for sure!"
Source: Metal-Rules.com
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13 Comments on "Beatallica Slapped With 'Cease-And-Desist' Order"
3. writes:
Wait, am I hearing this correctly? Lars Ulrich isn't suing over this?
F*cking amazing.
Also, Cheersvb, Without the Beatles, you wouldn't have had Black Sabbath, and then you wouldn't have had heavy metal. Ozzy AND tony said it themselves that the Beatles were a big influence on the band.
7. writes:
I thought it was Lars too, but if you haven't noticed, it's not actually the Beatles(or what's left of them) that is doing the suing.
"In the notice of willful copyright infringement, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, copyright owner and music publisher of "compositions written, individually and jointly, by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey" claims that Beatallica's use of The Beatles' compositions "without the express authorization or license has caused and continues to cause substantial and irreparable injury amd is in direct violation of Sony/ATV's rights."
I haven't heard ANYTHING from Paul or Ringo's camps about this, but then again, Well, Paul doesn't own his share of it, Michael Jackson bought those, and I'm not sure if Ringo has his copyrights still.
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10. writes:
Shut up. Quit b****ing about it so much, it's recorded, sold a million copies, IT'S DONE!!! Leave it alone.
How would you feel if you were a member of one of the world's most known metal bands and people were trashing you becasue you put out a different album?
12. writes:
Whatever happened to artistic freedom?
Beatallica can make songs. There's nothing wrong with that.
How many of you have seen Dawn Of The Dead?
Do you remember that one scene where someone(It sounded like Kevin Porter) was singing a lounge version of Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness"??
This is the same thing. It just involves two other bands.
13. writes:
"Do you remember that one scene where someone(It sounded like Kevin Porter) was singing a lounge version of Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness"?? This is the same thing. It just involves two other bands."
True, but I'll bet anything that they had to pay someone some licensing money to use Disturbeds song.
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1. Leathco writes:
Wow....for once it's Metallica not only not doing the suing, but actually backing up the defendants!