Tyler Perry has found himself in a bit of copyright trouble lately for allegedly incorporating portions of copyrighted gospel music in his many successful shows.
In the latest case, North Carolina songwriter Johnny Tyrone Stringfield filed a $100,000 lawsuit last week in California District Court accusing Perry, cable channel TBS, and its Time Warner parent of incorporating an entire verse of lyrics from his song “I Got Away” in Perry’s hit TV show “Meet the Browns.”
According to the complaint, characters in the show sang the copyrighted song with the refrain, “The Devil thought he had me but I got away.”
Perry’s reps didn’t respond to a request for comment.
via: The Belle Report
