Songwriter sues Muse label for $3.5m

A US-based songwriter is suing Warner Music for $3.5m, claiming that the label’s act Muse ripped off his sci-fi rock opera for their track Exogenesis.

Charles Bollfrass told a federal Manhattan court last week that he contacted Muse in 2005 amongst other artists to compose the score for his own track ‘Exogenesis’, described as a "cinematic science-fiction rock opera".

The themed of Bollfrass’s song was said to be about space travel after the demise of the planet earth.

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