As we mentioned earlier this week, indie record labels Independiente and Domino Recording Company are both suing Guns N’ Roses. The companies claim GNRs copied two songs for their album, Chinese Democracy.
Both labels own the licensing rights to German musician Ulrich Schnauss’ music and claim GNRs used the songs on their track Riad N’ the Bedouins, and are asking for $1 million in damages.
But now GNRs’ manager, Irving Azoff, claims the band “vigorously contests” those claims.
Azoff says the band plans to respond accordingly and adds:
“The band believed when the record came out and still believes that there are no unauthorized samples on the track. The snippets of ‘ambient noise’ in question were provided by a member of the album’s production team who has assured us that these few seconds of sound were obtained legitimately.
Artists these days can’t read the minds of those they collaborate with and therefore are unfortunately vulnerable to claims like this one. While the band resents the implication that they would ever use another artist’s work improperly and are assessing possible counterclaims, they are confident this situation will be satisfactorily resolved.”
Ambient noise?
Riiiight.
[Image via PNP / WENN.]
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