I have good news and bad news for Electronic Arts. The bad news first? Okay: EA is being sued again. The good news? It’s not about Spore this time! No, this time EA is being sued over something much more stupid as hell: using a college fight song.

Electronic Arts is being sued by Gerald Willis, who claims to be the the composer of and copyright holder to the lyrics and music for “Win With the Rebels”, the fight song for UNLV. According to Willis, you can hear his song in the following games:

Willis is seeking $150,000 per alleged copyright violation, which comes out to be roughly $1.35M. Unless he is considering every unit sold as a violation of copyright, in which case his claim could wind up being in the tens of millions of dollars.

Personally, one would think that if EA went to the University to ask permission to use the fight song, EA is in the clear no matter how butthurt this guy is.

via GamePolitics

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