Russian sues cult American rock band: he demands $ 1 billion and life support
Ivan Khokhlov from Russia has filed a lawsuit against the rock band Metallica. The Russian claims that he wrote all the hits of the musical group and developed the design of all their albums. Now he wants to receive compensation in the form of $ 1 billion and lifetime content from the group's album sales. The edition told in more detail SecretMag.
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Khokhlov on November 2 sent a claim to the Arbitration Court of the Oryol Region. The grounds for the application are not specified. The man claims that he is the author of the music, lyrics and titles of all Metallica albums. In addition, according to him, he came up with the logo for the group and the covers of all albums.
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He demands not only to pay him compensation, which he considers to be arrears for the work performed, but also to assign life support from the proceeds of the group's music and merchandise sales.
Metallica was founded in 1981 in Los Angeles, California by guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. The team has 10 studio albums. The last one was released in 2016.
Chechen "Avatar"
The 1th Century Fox and a resident of Chechnya Ruslan Zakriev tried to sue the 20th Century Fox film studio for $ XNUMX billion. A well-known science fiction writer in very narrow circles convinced the court that James Cameron had stolen from him the plot of the science fiction novel "The Secret Weapon", writes Big Picture.
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The writer claimed that "Avatar" was filmed according to a stolen script, and now Cameron "enjoys fame and money that does not belong to him."
He filed a lawsuit twice: the first in 2015 for $ 1 billion, the second in 2019 for only 10 million rubles ($ 140 thousand). He lost both cases and did not receive a dime.
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