“It Seems To Me I’ve Heard That Song Before”

The American Federation of Musicians is still hearing sour notes. Eriq Gardner (The Hollywood Reporter) reports that the AFM has filed a second lawsuit against the biggest studios in Hollywood (Columbia Studios, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, and others) for repeatedly using soundtrack clips from older films for new movies. The clips, sometimes as short as 18 seconds, come from such well-known films as Titanic and Battle for the Planet of the Apes and, says AFM, were used without permission.  Mr. Gardner provides a copy of the complaint in his article for THR.

Last month, AFM sued three of the largest studios, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and MGM, for violating a 2010 agreement that guaranteed that films made in the United States or Canada would have soundtracks recorded in those countries (complaint made available courtesy of Eriq Gardner).  More here on the suit from Billboard,  here from the Los Angeles Times.