DeadSlash Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 It's super blatant. I never heard anything about it though, seems impossible there was no suit. This was WCW, owned by Ted Turner, so there was a lot of money there. It seems like it would have been a slamdunk, he used WTTJ itself earlier in his career, so he clearly liked the song... "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses (WCW; June 25, 1989 – March 4, 1990 / SMW; October 7, 1993 – October 10, 1993 / ECW; July 28, 1995 – September 23, 1995; used as a member of The Steiner Brothers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juventino Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 And it wasn't the only one. DDP and Chris Jericho had rip-off themes too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadSlash Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 (edited) Wow, just googled those. I don't understand how there wasn't tons of lawsuits. Perry Saturn had Beautiful People... With all the suits over the years, I'm shocked this never happened. Edited July 22, 2017 by DeadSlash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncitingChaos Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Someone should sue Axl for his current renditions of Jungle! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juventino Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 2 hours ago, DeadSlash said: Wow, just googles those. I don't understand how there wasn't tons of lawsuits. Perry Saturn had Beautiful People... With all the suits over the years, I'm shocked this never happened. And it seems like there were many more: http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/458604/wcw-knock-theme-master-list 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Maybe they thought he was doing enough damage to himself by wearing a studded dog collar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskerTornado Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 WCW did this a lot, and most of them are dubbed over on WWE Network now because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 14 hours ago, DeadSlash said: It's super blatant. I never heard anything about it though, seems impossible there was no suit. This was WCW, owned by Ted Turner, so there was a lot of money there. It seems like it would have been a slamdunk, he used WTTJ itself earlier in his career, so he clearly liked the song... "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses (WCW; June 25, 1989 – March 4, 1990 / SMW; October 7, 1993 – October 10, 1993 / ECW; July 28, 1995 – September 23, 1995; used as a member of The Steiner Brothers) God, I hate wrestling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinaleblood Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 As far as I know, you can't sue for a soundalike. They are professionally made to have enough notes changed to avoid copyright infringement, yet at the same time still sounding familiar enough. A few times music by big bands was used both in WCW (Megadeth's Creush 'Em) or WWE (Tatu's All The Things She Said, Limp Bizkit's Rollin', etc), but it was completely legal and everything was cleared and paid for. ECW was a totally different story. They were a small (but growing) company back then and their boss Paul Heyman admitted they were up to a lot of sketchy stuff back in the days, entrance themes included. They used tons of copyrighted music, including GNR and Metallica's Enter Sandman, and they didn't ever pay a cent for it. He said they were ""smart enough"" not to put the music straight into the audio feed of their televised shows. Basically, the music was played through the arena sound system and you could hear it on tv because the mics picked it up, not because they actually run it through their audio feed. That said, I don't think they were even paying to legally play it in the arena, lol. Anyway, the company is long gone. Fled for bankruptcy in 2001 and the trademark and the old video library is owned by WWE now. And when WWE upped old ECW episodes on their network, all the copyrighted music was edited out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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