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Former Ramones drummer Richard Reinhardt today filed suit in US federal court in Manhattan claiming that his music publisher never had the right to "authorize distribution or duplication of six songs he wrote between 1983 and 1987" which were subsequently made available through iTunes, Wal-Mart.com's music store and Real Networks Real Store and Rhapsody services. [The Register]
Wait, wait... Reinhardt, you're suing the merchants for something your publisher did? Who are you trying to be, Eminem?
Okay, that's two off the deep end. I hope the judges in both cases tests both for drugs, alcohol, and orders a mental health evaluation of the two before throwing the case out, and yanking the licenses of the two lawyers who took up the cases.
Wait, wait... Reinhardt, you're suing the merchants for something your publisher did? Who are you trying to be, Eminem?
Okay, that's two off the deep end. I hope the judges in both cases tests both for drugs, alcohol, and orders a mental health evaluation of the two before throwing the case out, and yanking the licenses of the two lawyers who took up the cases.
