Le Tigre have shared a statement opening up on their recent lawsuit against Barry Mann, challenging the singer over cease-and-desist letters alleging the band’s song ‘Deceptacon’ infringed on the copyright for his 1961 song ‘Who Put The Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)’.As Rolling Stone reports, Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre said: “Last week, we filed a complaint seeking declaratory judgment in the Southern District of New York against Barry Mann.
He wants money from us, and his goal is to own and control our song. We don’t want to sue anyone, let alone another artist, but we have no choice at this point.
We just want Mann to leave us alone.“‘Deceptacon’, which we wrote more than two decades ago, bears no resemblance to the song he.
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