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| Britney Spears’ Songwriter Sues Country Duo for Smear Campaign - Softpedia Posted: Ever since Britney Spears premiered her first single off the upcoming "Femme Fatale" album, "Hold It Against Me," country duo The Bellamy Brothers have been constantly stating she and her team had ripped one of their songs off for it. The brothers are now being sued. As we also noted on previous occasions, The Bellamy Brothers claim Britney ripped off their "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" for her latest chart-topper. In one of their most recent interviews, right after Spears premiered the official video for the song, they even said they were considering legal action against the pop star, even though she doesn't get songwriting credits for the track. The person who did write it, though, is furious that the brothers have been shooting their mouth off to the press about it, especially since there is barely any similarity between the two songs save for the title. Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald has filed a lawsuit against the country duo for the ongoing smear campaign and for using Spears' name to draw attention to their own material, TMZ reports. "In a federal lawsuit filed today, Lukasz 'Dr. Luke' Gottwald says The Bellamy Brothers launched a 'smear campaign' by claiming Brit's hit – co-penned by Gottwald – was just a knockoff of their 1979 song," the e-zine writes. "Gottwald also claims the Brothers' attack was 'a publicity stunt aimed to increase their record sales... and to combat their dwindling relevance.' Ouch," TMZ further says. Dr. Luke is seeking unspecified damages for defamation – and he also wants a court order to state "once and for all" that Spears' song is not a rip-off of The Bellamy Brothers' ballad, thus preventing these from ever making this claim to the media. "Howard and I have no personal beef with Britney. She's a talented gal. But professionally we feel completely ripped off. We will without doubt take the appropriate legal action if our attorneys agree we've been ripped off," David Bellamy was saying only a short while ago. As of now, The Bellamy Brothers have not commented in any way the lawsuit brought against them. Follow the editor on Twitter @ElenaGorgan This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: Britney Spears, in an apparent attempt to latch onto the female-pop-star-as-gay-icon meme , will be performing a "mini-concert" somewhere in San Francisco in late March. A YouTube video released Thursday... Britney Spears to hold "mini-concert" in San Francisco in March. When? Where? Good questions. Britney Spears, in an apparent attempt to latch onto the female-pop-star-as-gay-icon meme, will be performing a "mini-concert" somewhere in San Francisco in late March. A YouTube video released Thursday shows Britney announcing a concert "to remember" in the city's Castro District that will be shown on Good Morning America. When Insider called the handful of city officials responsible for coordinating star-studded (ahem) events like this one, they almost uniformly went: "Huh?" (And yes, Insider did spend a better part of the afternoon talking about Britney Spears. Hey, it wasn't snowing, so of course there isn't any real news to report.) Turns out the video was prematurely leaked and many of the details are still sketchy. (That might also explain Britney's strange voice). The city and producers from ABC will hash out the final details in the coming weeks. Here's what Insider knows for sure: Britney will be tape a live performance somewhere in San Francisco on Sunday March 27. We don't know when. We don't know where. We do know it will be shown on Good Morning America on March 29. We also know she'll be performing five songs. We don't know which ones. There's a good chance a select few Britney fans will get to watch the concert. We don't know how many or how you get a ticket. Go ahead and put our Pulitzer in the mail. PS: Normally, Insider hates getting scooped. But on this, we're following celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. We've never felt so cool. Or dirty. | February 25 2011 at 04:55 PM Britney Spears to hold "mini-concert" in San Francisco in March. When? Where? Good questions. Britney Spears, in an apparent attempt to latch onto the female-pop-star-as-gay-icon meme , will be performing a "mini-concert" somewhere in San Francisco in late March. A YouTube video... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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