Reply To: JoCo in the Media
I should start on a parody called “Baby Got Sued”.
(as far as I understand these things from my lawyer buddies, JoCo inherently and automatically owns a copyright to his performance and recording of the song, which they obviously ripped off)
Having said that, I could see the producers of Glee not being aware of JoCo’s version, and that’s why this happened. The musicians they employ or contract obviously did, though. The same sort of thing almost happened to me and the game company I own. I contracted an artist to create some hairstyles for 3d characters, and two of them were direct ripoffs of copyrighted anime characters, but since I’m not an anime enthusiast, I had no idea. Luckily, I was made aware of it before we actually published them.