Le Tigre Bandmates Fire Back at Singer Claiming They Infringed on His Song: ‘We Won’t Stand for His Threats’

On October 8, 2021, Rhett Millsaps and Rebecca Tushnet filed Lex Lumina’s first lawsuit: a complaint in the Southern District of New York on behalf of Le Tigre bandmates Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman seeking declaratory judgment against Barry Mann, the co-writer (with Gerry Goffin) of the 1961 hit “Who Put the Bomp? (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp).” Mann’s lawyers recently sent cease-and-desist letters claiming that Le Tigre’s 1999 feminist anthem “Deceptacon” infringes on, and is wholly derivative of, his and Goffin’s song.

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