{"id":974124,"date":"2019-12-19T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929339"},"modified":"2019-12-19T08:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:30:39","slug":"yellowcard-torn-but-proceeding-with-juice-wrld-lucid-dreams-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/yellowcard-torn-but-proceeding-with-juice-wrld-lucid-dreams-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowcard \u2018Torn\u2019 But \u2018Proceeding\u2019 With Juice WRLD \u2018Lucid Dreams\u2019 Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the death<\/a> of Juice WRLD<\/a> on December 8th, punk band Yellowcard still plan to proceed with a copyright infringement lawsuit<\/a> over the rapper\u2019s hit \u201cLucid Dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the $15 million lawsuit filed in October, Yellowcard accused Juice WLRD\u2019s Sting-sampling single of using the melody of the band\u2019s 2006 song \u201cHolly Wood Died\u201d \u201cin a manner that is easily recognizable to the ordinary observer.\u201d \u201cLucid Dreams\u201d is \u201cnot only substantially similar to [\u2018Holly Wood Died\u2019], but in some places virtually identical,\u201d Yellowcard\u2019s lawyer Richard Busch \u2014 who also represented the Marvin Gaye estate in the \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d case<\/a> \u2014 said at the time. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a legal notice filed one day after Juice WRLD\u2019s death at the age of 21, Yellowcard \u2014 who released \u201cHolly Wood Died\u201d when the rapper was eight years old \u2014 made clear their intention to pursue the legal matter by extending a deadline for defendants to respond to the lawsuits from December 9th until February 4th, 2020. Busch did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, we were as shocked and saddened by Juice WRLD\u2019s death as everyone else. It is a tragic loss to his family, his fans, and to the music world at large, and we understand why people may be confused about the decision to continue with this lawsuit,\u201d Busch\u2019s King & Fallow law firm said in a statement to Billboard<\/em><\/a> Wednesday following news of Yellowcard\u2019s plan to proceed with the lawsuit. <\/span>\u201cMy clients are certainly torn about proceeding, and understand the optics involved. But it is important to remember that this lawsuit was filed before this tragic event, and was filed because all of the defendants (and there are two other writers and several music publishers and record labels), profited off of what we believe was clear copying and infringement of Yellowcard\u2019s work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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King & Fallow continued, \u201cSo while they are absolutely aware of how this may be perceived, and truly have incredible mixed emotions, the question is whether it is fair that all of those many parties profited, and will continue to profit, off of what my client\u2019s believe strongly was their work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The law firm added that the $15 million figure attached to the lawsuit was \u201cfalsely reported\u201d and that Yellowcard \u201care simply seeking what the law allows, and what parties in their position have sought in similar cases, which at this point is not determined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite the death of Juice WRLD on December 8th, punk band Yellowcard still plan to proceed with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the rapper\u2019s hit \u201cLucid Dreams.\u201d In the $15 million lawsuit filed in October, Yellowcard accused Juice WLRD\u2019s Sting-sampling single of using the melody of the band\u2019s 2006 song \u201cHolly Wood Died\u201d \u201cin a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 00:00:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}