Bad news for Electronic Arts today, with word that the composer of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) fight song is suing the publisher for copyright infringement. The suit, which alleges that EA used the song “Win With the Rebels,” asks for $150,000 per violation. That totals to $1,500,000 since the suit claims the song can be heard on 10 EA games.
The games are NCAA Football (2006-2009 editions); NCAA Basketball (2009); NCAA March Madness (2006-2008 editions); and NCAA Baseball (2006 and 2007 editions).
The song can be found here. To my ears, it sounds like every other fight song in existence.
via Edge Online
Wow that’s a pretty penny. Do you think the money will go to funding marching band equipment? ;)
Strange.
I just got back from Vegas last night and that’s why I haven’t posted any comments. I need my CrunchGear fix!
Win with the rebels more like Win at lucky strike casino. Last time I visited UNLV there were a lot of classes that were either writing reports about casinos or taking field trips to casinos haha Vegas is MONEY! Oh and add crunchgear to the lawsuite since they are also offering a link to download the fight song and I am sure they wont appreciate it hahahahaha ridiculous right! Everyone is so sue happy now a days its preposterous.
if a person could be sued a few hundred grands for allegedly sharing a few songs…
1.5 mil for distributing in over 10 games and to a KNOWN amount of distribution is actually .. cheap.