Gerald Willis, a high school music teacher and conductor for the Truckee Meadows Community College orchestra, filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts to enforce his 1990 copyright on the University of Las Vegas fight song, “Win With the Rebels”. Willis claims that Electronic Arts used the song without permission in 10 of it’s popular NCAA video games — NCAA Basketball 09, NCAA Football 06-09, NCAA March Madness 06-08, and NCAA Baseball 06-07.
The suit, filed on September 29, seeks up to $150,000 for each copyright violation — not bad for a high school music teacher. UNLV, which holds a limited license to use the song, is not named in the suit.
[via Las Vegas Review-Journal]
