Two former members of Le Tigre have gone legal in a song-theft dispute, though it’s the electronic rock outfit who have been accused of the song-thieving.
However, they argue, the songwriter accusing them of song-theft didn’t actually write the lyrics they are accused of lifting and – anyway – the way they employed those lyrics was fair use under US copyright law.This dispute relates to the 1999 Le Tigre song ‘Deceptacon’.
It has some similar lyrics to Barry Mann’s 1961 single ‘Who Put The Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)’. Mann’s song goes “Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?”, while ‘Deceptacon’ has the lyrics “Who took the bomp from the Bompalompalomp? Who took the ram from the.
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