LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Tyler Perry has begin himself in a bit of absorb agitation afresh for allegedly accumulation portions of copyrighted actuality music in his abounding acknowledged shows.
In the latest case, North Carolina songwriter Johnny Tyrone Stringfield filed a $100,000 accusation aftermost anniversary in California District Court accusing Perry, cable approach TBS, and its Time Warner ancestor of accumulation an absolute ballad of lyrics from his song "I Got Away" in Perry's hit TV appearance "Meet the Browns."
According to the complaint, characters in the appearance sang the copyrighted song with the refrain, "The Devil anticipation he had me but I got away."
This is the additional time that hallelujahs acquainted to the anticipation of absolution accept acquired Perry grief. In backward November, he was sued for allegedly accumulation a choir from a actuality song in the cine "Madea Goes to Jail."
Perry's reps didn't acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
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