A new federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses WWE, TKO, John Cena, and others of using an unlicensed sample to create Cena’s “The Time Is Now” theme song.The lawsuit claims that the horn-driven intro and outro were copied from a 1974 cover recording arranged by the late Pete Schofield. The complaint was submitted by Schofield’s daughter, Kim Schofield, who says she now owns the copyrights to the record and the music she says is an original arrangement.The case may hinge on whether those horn sections are protectable elements of the Schofield arrangement or an unlicensed derivative work.
>>19411683>schofieldimagine my shock
>>19411683Cenationbros...our time is up
Cena fans being shocked that "the top guy" who saw a year on year decline in ratings and relevancy isn't actually mainstream, so no one has heard his shitty theme until twenty years later by accident during his farewell tour.
>>19411722kek also they only heard it cause of that espn guy burying wrestlepalooza
>>19411683How do you own a horn sound lol
>>19411722holy CDS
>>19411762You would be surprised at how gay certain copyrights are.
>>19411762Lol.https://youtu.be/fslRfsBs2wo?si=7AizJvbrzO8XyyRvWWE get away with it just like ECW used to cause only retards watch it.
Brrrr apple dough lol
>>19411833oh that do be it
>>19411833song peaks at 5 seconds and keeps getting worse the longer it goes desu
>>19411833>>19411683LMAOOOOOOOO The absolute perfect way to end Cena's shitty tour and his career: being exposed as an incompetent, careless fraud. Hoooooly fuck. This made my day.
>>19411905being sued for copyright infringement due to unlicensed samples is pretty much a rite of passage for all rappers. cena's just getting his late
>>19411924Nice cope.
>>19411683World Weinstein Epstein
>According to Post Wrestling, a federal lawsuit that was filed this week alleges that Cena and WWE utilized an unlicensed sample to create Cena's theme music. The dispute centers around the notable horn arrangement in the song. The report indicates that the suit accuses WWE of improperly using the arrangement that was written by Pete Schofield. The suit was filed by Schofield's daughter.Someone needs to Janel Grant this bitch
this is unironically what WWE gets for copyright fucking with WSGDOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT
isn't that sample from Ante Up by MOP ?
>>19411683And this, folks, is a good lesson on why you shouldn't """"sample"""" music and just make your own instead.
So this dumb bitch is suing somebody for sampling part of a COVER recording? Not even an original song?
>>19411683America never ceases to amaze me with just how petty and jewish it can be over literally nothing.>no I didn't make thing but I deserve money for it anyway
>>19411683This botched narcissism-driven "retirement tour" gets fucking funnier and funnier every day. Cena deserves nothing more and nothing less than going out in the worst way possible for all the damage he has caused to the product and many careers. I can't wait to see WWE go under when he's gone. Taiwan is a country.
>>19413853I haven't checked the status recently, but we're planning on making patent trolling even easier as well. Gonna be an amazing time for scams
>>19413853>no I didn't make thing but I deserve money for it anyway But enough about Cena's theme.
>>19411722>>19411733Cry tranny
>>19411683Humiliation Ritual Tour
I thought it's settled law that yo ucan use a three second sample. the nWo theme is just three seconds of a Hendrix guitar treack repeated
>>19415647>Such an irrelevant micro celebrity he can't even get on one of the first 2422 Joe Rogan Experiences.Cena bros...
>>19411683My Time is Now (Prison Time)
End his career by getting sued for half of his income kek
>>19411683>Federal
>>19415657>ucan use a three second sample.Nope. That's the old rule. Try uploading three second clips of a multiple popular tracks on any major platform and see what happens to your account.
>>19415797>Google's arbitrarily enforced internal policy is the same thing as copyright lawAnon... I...
>>19411833Oh he's fucked
>Schofield says in the suit that she reached a written settlement with WWE in 2017 and received a one-time $50,000 payment from the company in that settlement. She now claims that WWE withheld important information from her in an effort to get her to sign the settlement.Lmao how Jewish can we get here?
>>19413843>>19411683>Women gets access to something >Immediately wants to be catered to>Immediately wants money >Women
>>19411683https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fslRfsBs2wo&t=2s
>>19411833>click it expecting it to be a slow version of the horns or something actually "sampled" in the traditional sense>they literally copy and pasted the audio from the trackholy fuck how has it taken this long for this lawsuit to happen?
>>19416274Something e-drones don't understand due to their brainwashing is how irrelevant WWE is culturally now, this isn't the 80s or 90s anymore. No one knows who Cena is and those who do know him as a D-list celebrity wrestler. They certainly haven't heard his fucking music, but he's been doing the media rounds for the past few weeks and someone probably heard it.
>>19416287you're on a wrestling board arguing about how irrelevant WWE is, I can only imagine how fucking irrelevant the mudshow tranny slop you watch is
