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Bon Jovi Sued For $400 Billion By Eriq Gardner, Reuters
3 hours ago LOS ANGELES — A Massachusetts man is pursuing a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Time Warner and Major League Baseball, among others, against all odds. Yes, $400 billion. Last year, Samuel Bartley Steele filed a lawsuit against the defendants for allegedly ripping off his ode to the Boston Red Sox entitled, "(Man I Really) Love this Team." According to the complaint, the song was released in October 2004 and performed by the Bart Steele Band. Steele says he handed out copies to Red Sox executives, sent copies of the song to players, performed it live on local television, and sent it to MLB with the idea for a "country" song that would market baseball. During the 2007 playoffs, Bon Jovi released a song, "I Love This Town," that was used by MLB to promote playoff baseball on Time Warner's TBS cable station. Steele claimed that frontman Jon Bon Jovi either heard the song when he was campaigning for John Kerry in Boston in 2004 or that some executive passed it along to him. Sounds ridiculous. But things got weirder after Steele's own musicologist testified that the songs weren't very similar. The district judge ruled that no reasonable jury could conclude there was substantial similarity between the songs and dismissed the claim. Red Sox fans don't give up very easily, though. On Friday, Steele appealed his $400 billion claim to an appeals court. 
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funkpill said: By Eriq Gardner, Reuters
3 hours ago LOS ANGELES — A Massachusetts man is pursuing a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Time Warner and Major League Baseball, among others, against all odds. Yes, $400 billion. Last year, Samuel Bartley Steele filed a lawsuit against the defendants for allegedly ripping off his ode to the Boston Red Sox entitled, "(Man I Really) Love this Team." According to the complaint, the song was released in October 2004 and performed by the Bart Steele Band. Steele says he handed out copies to Red Sox executives, sent copies of the song to players, performed it live on local television, and sent it to MLB with the idea for a "country" song that would market baseball. During the 2007 playoffs, Bon Jovi released a song, "I Love This Town," that was used by MLB to promote playoff baseball on Time Warner's TBS cable station. Steele claimed that frontman Jon Bon Jovi either heard the song when he was campaigning for John Kerry in Boston in 2004 or that some executive passed it along to him. Sounds ridiculous. But things got weirder after Steele's own musicologist testified that the songs weren't very similar. The district judge ruled that no reasonable jury could conclude there was substantial similarity between the songs and dismissed the claim. Red Sox fans don't give up very easily, though. On Friday, Steele appealed his $400 billion claim to an appeals court.
© 2009 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. What a clown. Its been thrown out of so many courts already the dude might get sued for constantly bringing it up. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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He may as well be Dr. Evil with that insane ass number!!! JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!! | |
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Only $400 billion? Why not just make it a cool trillion? | |
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MyMyMy said: Only $400 billion? Why not just make it a cool trillion?
why have trillions when you can have.....billions?  | |
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Plus the dude is an ass for passing his music around like it was a joint. What a fucking moron, someone should sue him for being a dick, or having a song about the redsox. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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