# Bill Murray Faces Legal Threat From Doobie Brothers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510 "2020-09-25T14:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/1 "2020-09-25T14:51:36Z")
This is pretty mundane and pointless, but I found the article amusing. Choice quote: > “We’d almost be OK with it if the shirts weren’t so damn ugly,” the lawyer, Peter T. Paterno, wrote in a letter sent to Mr. Murray on Wednesday. I like Bill Murray and I like the Doobie Brothers, so I hope they come to an equitable solution. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/media/bill-murray-doobie-brothers.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=trending\_recirc&fellback=false&imp\_id=898376404&impression\_id=395d5f90-ff3d-11ea-8e57-fdeb0fe61cca&index=0&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req\_id=831280972&surface=most-popular](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/media/bill-murray-doobie-brothers.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=898376404&impression_id=395d5f90-ff3d-11ea-8e57-fdeb0fe61cca&index=0&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=831280972&surface=most-popular) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/2 "2020-09-25T15:02:38Z")
I like this part: > In his letter to [Mr. Murray](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/fashion/news/bill-murray-brooklyn-bartender.html), Mr. Paterno was no less sarcastic: “This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/3 "2020-09-25T15:12:30Z")
Haha, yeah, he seems like the only lawyer I’d ever like to have a beer with. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/4 "2020-09-25T15:54:59Z")
The Doobies should just be happy that someone still thinks their music is relevant enough to put in a commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/5 "2020-09-25T15:58:19Z")
No kidding. They fell off the edge of the world in terms of popularity. I can’t remember the last time I listened to one of their songs. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/6 "2020-09-25T16:02:28Z")
Sadly I was force to listen to “What A Fool Believes” at the store. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/7 "2020-09-25T16:17:42Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I hope they come to an equitable solution. I hope that too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/8 "2020-09-25T17:03:35Z")
From the tone of the legal letters, it sounds like an equitable solution will be very possible. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/9 "2020-09-25T17:03:41Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > They fell off the edge of the world in terms of popularity. I can’t remember the last time I listened to one of their songs. Yeah. I’d spit in the face of whoever tried to give me all the money they’re still making from those songs. What would I do with millions of dollars? Especially if they gave to me in cash. I’d probably be injured from trying to lift it all, if I weren’t entirely buried in currency. And think! They’d do it again the next quarter, and the next quarter, and the next… Money, money, money forever. It’s like a curse! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/10 "2020-09-25T17:18:26Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I can’t remember the last time I listened to one of their songs. I listened to _I Cheat The Hangman_ yesterday. Epic tune! Great band. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-faces-legal-threat-from-doobie-brothers/921510/11 "2020-09-25T18:41:19Z")
That’s truly a great song, though it was a long while after I first heard it that I learned it was a Doobie Brothers tune. Doesn’t sound like them at all, probably because it was by Patrick Simmons rather than Tom Johnson.