JUDGE DISMISSES LAWSUIT AGAINST KID ROCK
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a Louisiana musician’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Kid Rock, ruling Troy Landry didn’t prove that the rapper’s "Somebody’s Gotta Feel This" was a rip off of his own music.
"The works are not so strikingly or substantially similar as to preclude independent creation," U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon wrote in her ruling this week. Lemmon cited expert testimony from both sides, plus her side-by-side review of the songs from which she concluded "a layman would not view the works as substantially similar."