{"id":3841,"date":"2019-06-20T04:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/carrie-underwood-being-sued-for-snf-theme\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T04:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:29:02","slug":"carrie-underwood-being-sued-for-snf-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/carrie-underwood-being-sued-for-snf-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Being Sued For SNF Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LeJotdhLS5c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Carrie Underwood, her producer, Mark Bright, NBC, the NFL and others are being sued for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>California-based singer Heidi Merrill claims that Underwood&#8217;s version of the Sunday Night Football theme was stolen directly from her song, &#8220;Game On,&#8221; which Merrill says she posted to YouTube in 2017 and submitted to Mark Bright that same year in hopes that Underwood would record it for the 2018 NFL season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/upceJcgD-QM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>TMZ reports that Merrill was eventually told Underwood&#8217;s camp passed on using &#8220;Game On,&#8221; so she was shocked to see a new song called &#8220;Game On&#8221; being promoted for Sunday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, Merrill is seeking an undetermined amount of money. So far, neither Underwood&#8217;s camp nor the NFL have commented on the suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood, her producer, Mark Bright, NBC, the NFL and others are being sued for copyright infringement. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,835,836,837,318,49],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-game-on","tag-heidi-merrill","tag-mark-bright","tag-nfl","tag-sunday-night-football"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 04:25:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/carrie-underwood-being-sued-for-snf-theme\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}