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Marvel & Others Sued Over X-Men: The Animated Series Theme Song

Marvel Entertainment, the Walt Disney Company, and others have been slapt with a lawsuit for copyright infringement involving the 1990s theme song to the hit cartoon, X-Men: The Animated Series due to its similiarities to a 1980s Hungarian cop show’s theme, according to TMZ. This is not the first incident where the similarities between the two themes have been noted before online, but this time a representative from the estate of the original show’s composer has apparantly filed a lawsuit.

Zoltan Krisko, representing the estate of the late composer Gyorgy Vukan, has reportedly filed a lawsuit alleging that the X-Men: The Animated Series‘ theme is based on the Vukan’s theme to Linda, a Hungarian crime-comedy series that aired from 1984 to 1991. According to TMZ, the lawsuit names Marvel, Disney, Fox, Amazon “and more” as defendants.

In his lawsuit, Krisko claims TV executives behind the X-Men animated show rubbed shoulders with Hungarian film professionals in the 80s.

He claims this would have exposed them to the Linda theme song as it was such a popular show during that time period.

The X-Men animated series debuted in the US in 1992 on FOX and aired for five seasons. It still popular to this day.

Krisko said he was not aware of the TV series or its theme song until 2017 but claims that much of the success the franchise has had in subsequent years is due to its theme song.

According to the publication, he now wants Gyorgy Vukan’s estate to receive some of the profits the franchise has made since the 90s.

Here’s the X-Men: The Animated Series theme, credited to composer Ron Wasserman from 1992:

And here’s Vukan’s Linda theme, reportedly copyrighted back in 1983.

According to TMZ, the lawsuit alleges “all the success the [X-Men: The Animated Series] franchise achieved for Marvel and many other companies is a result of that iconic [song] and, as he claims, stolen theme song.”

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