Le Tigre have settled their lawsuit with singer Barry Mann around their song ‘Deceptacon’.Mann initially had sent Hanna and Fatemen cease-and-desist letters alleging that the 1999 song infringed upon his own 1961 track, ‘Who Put The Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)’.
Le Tigre then filed a countersuit against Mann, where they claimed that his song is “not original” and that he had “no legitimate copyright claim”.The claims in the suit, as reported by Pitchfork, were “amicably resolved” in a confidential agreement with no public admission of liability.
Additionally, the suit has now been dismissed with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be refiled in the future.“Mr. Mann did not create these vocables or song titles; rather, it appears that Mr.
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