Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman have settled their short-run legal battle with musician Barry Mann, according to court papers seen by Pitchfork.
So that’s no fun. We prefer our legal battles to be long-running and very tetchy.This dispute related to the 1999 Le Tigre song ‘Deceptacon’, which had some similar lyrics to Mann’s 1961 single ‘Who Put The Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)’.
Hanna and Fateman said that, somewhat late in the day, Mann was now claiming that their song infringed the copyright in his earlier work.The lyrical similarities between the two songs are clear to see.
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