LOS ANGELES (LALATE EXCLUSIVE) – Bob Dylan and Dee Snider have filed a massive $2.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit against a local radio station, LALATE can exclusively report. The Bob Dylan, Dee Snider lawsuit claims that WOLD-FM committed willful copyright infringement of their songs starting last year. WOLD-FM is a Marion, Virginia radio station otherwise known as “The Renegade”.

In MPCA King of Spades v. T.E.C. 2 Broadcasting, Inc., Dylan and Snider are suing T.E.C. 2 Broadcasting and Thomas E. Copenhaver for willful copyright infringement . The plaintiffs are also seeking injunctive relief and damages claiming Defendants’ engaged in “repeated, unauthorized public performances of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted musical compositions on Defendants’ owned and operated commercial radio station”.

Multiple plaintiffs have are bringing the lawsuit as one action. They include Plaintiff Core Music Publishing over their songs “Fly by Night,” “Freewill, “Limelight,” “New World Man,” “Red Barchetta,” “Subdivisions,” “The Spirit of Radio,” “Working Man,” “Tom Sawyer,” and “Closer to the Heart”.

Bob Dylan is suing regarding his songs “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, “Tangled Up in Blue”, and “Positively 4th Street”, “All Along the Watchtower” and “Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35”. Dee Snider is suing for his song of “We’re Not Gonna Take It” .

The twenty-two page, seventeen count, complaint is seeking $150,000, not per alleged willful infringement, but per count.
The defendants have yet to comment about the news.