My lawsuit is based on what I believe was the defendants' use of my Boston baseball playoff song "Man I Love This Team" as a temp track in the production of a commercial for Major League Baseball. The audio portion of that commercial was performed by Bon Jovi. I believe that commercial--both the visual images and the Bon Jovi audio-were derived from my song.

I sent my song to the Red Sox and Major League Baseball and told them I had written another version called "Man I Really Love This Town." In basic legal terms, what I believe defendants did was make an "unauthorized derivative work." Their MLB "I Love This Town" campaign was one of the most expensive sports commercials in history.

The easiest way to understand what they did is to watch the commercial, with my song substituted for the Bon Jovi audio, and see how well it matches up. Boston Magazine described this as "advertising's equivalent of Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz." Actually, it's worse. Watch the commercial with my song (link Posted below) and decide for yourself. The documents I filed with the trial court contain extensive detail about the similarities, but here are just a few:

- at the exact time I am singing "Yawkey Way", the video shows a Yawkey Way street sign, and Bon Jovi is singing "this street"

-at the exact time I sing "Tigers", the video shows a Detroit Tigers player

-over 50% of the commercial's lyrics are identical to, or paraphrased from, my song

-96% of the commercial's frame cut editing is in perfect synchronization with my song's tempo, beat and measure

-the commercial and my song are exactly the same length.