Bon Jovi's legal battle over their baseball anthem is far from over - the man who filed a US$400 billion plagiarism suit against them last year is dragging the case back to court.
Massachusetts-based musician Samuel Bartley Steele filed papers in October last year alleging the group copied lyrics from his 2004 song '(Man I Really) Love This Team', which was used as the anthem for his baseball team, the Boston Red Sox.
Steele alleges the group's New Jersey-born frontman Jon Bon Jovi heard the song while campaigning for US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004, and used the track's lyrics to create hit song 'I Love This Town' - which was later used as a promotional track for Major League Baseball.
A judge dismissed the case in 2008 after Steele's own musicologist agreed the songs weren't very similar, but Steele has decided to challenge the decision. He filed an a notice of appeal to the First Circuit Federal Court on Friday.
WENN.com