
Two indie rock labels has sued Guns N’ Roses for $1 million, accusing Axl Rose for copyright infrigement. Guns N’ Rose and their label Universal Music Group are being sued for copying songs by a German musician named, Ulrich Schnauss. The Guns N’ Roses song, “Riad N’ Bedouins”, which is on their newest record, “Chinese Democracy” were taken from two of Ulrich Schnauss’s songs titled, “Where Ever You Are”, and a “Strangely Isolated Place”.
More on it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5944WT20091005
If Axl takes copyright infrigement so seriously, which he busted Kevin Cogill for uploading 9 songs from the “Democracy” album to his blog, and now Axl is being accused of copyright infrigement, something is wrong with this picture.
Kev