Back to the more mundane business of copyright infringement lawsuits, and a claim against country singer Toby Keith has been dismissed by a court in the US.
Singer songwriter Michael McCloud filed a suit last year claiming Keith's 2003 hit 'I Love This Bar' was essentially a rip off of his song 'Tourist Town Bar'. Keith's song had been written by him and his longtime collaborator Scotty Emerick.
But a court this week dismissed McCloud's claim, presumably because they didn't accept the two songs were, as the plaintiff claimed, "strikingly similar".
Commenting on the ruling, Keith told reporters: "It is an awful thing to be accused wrongfully of copyright infringement. It goes to the core of what you are as a man, a singer/songwriter and an artist ... I was put in the terrible position of not being able to defend myself until the trial and I just could not wait for that day to come. I knew it would take no time at all for the case to be dismissed and it was, of course, with prejudice which means: He had no case whatsoever".