More from the pop courts and a copyright infringement claim made against Kid Rock has been thrown out of court. A New Orleans based musician called Troy Landry claimed Kid Rock and his collaborators Uncle Kracker, John Travis and Kenny Olson had copied bits of two of his songs for 'Somebody's Gotta Feel This' on the 1998 album 'Devil Without a Cause'.
But Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon this week dismissed the charges in a Louisiana court, saying Landry had failed to provide evidence to contradict the defendants' claims they'd never heard his songs, that one of his expert witnesses had conceded that the disputed songs were as a whole quite different, while the defendant's experts said they were "distinctly different".
Kid Rock's attorney Michael Novak told reporters: "Judge Lemmon did the right thing in dismissing this case. It was utterly meritless. Unfortunately the way our justice system works, anybody can sue anyone for any reason, and successful artists tend to attract these groundless claims. But we are elated the system worked here. Justice is served".