Metallica Sue Cover Band. Metallica threatens to sue metallica tribute band And to give a more complete and accurate answer under current us law, i'd need to spend some time researching things.
Which obviously made metallica look like a bunch of unwiped assholes — who the fuck threatens to sue a cover band? Btw, the tribute band couldn't have bought the spotlight and publicity metallica's themselves given the band had they won the powerball drawing. Luckily, the whole thing turned out to be a misunderstanding;
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When canadian metallica cover band sandman arrived at a gig in january 2016 at fitzray's in london, ontario, they were met with a huge stack of paper waiting for them in a fedex package. Yet this was the first time. An earlier story we covered revealed that metallica had gone to war with fans affiliated with a tribute band that goes by the name sandman due to an alleged disagreement over what rights a group of thrashers have. I do remember a case in the scotus in the last few years involving raging bull and the applicability of laches given the statute of limitations under copyright law, but i can't.
