Internet radio star says Google stole his music for an ad
Google released a new ad for its Chromebook laptop and one person is extremely upset about it: Tom Scharpling, creator of the The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, a popular music, call-in, and comedy Internet radio show/podcast.
Scharpling tells Business Insider that the lyric is his and Google never contacted him about using it.
Scharpling is known for an ongoing joke on his show, a song he wrote and repeatedly performed called "Come on Y'All It's Time to Have Fun."
Here's a clip of him singing it via a tweet:
And while the Google commercial isn't a complete mimic of the music or the words, it does feature a similarly funky song with the lyric, "Come on now, let's have big fun."
After seeing the ad, Scharpling tweeted angrily about it on Thursday.
Where does Google get off stealing a song I wrote and joked about on The Best Show for years?https://t.co/Jf2hQ1RZDA- scharpling (@scharpling) November 19, 2015
When I hear elements of The Best Show in other comedy I'm usually flattered, because there are certainly elements of other comedy and comedians in The Best Show. But this is not a matter of influence or parallel thinking. This is a case of straight up thievery.
Google is a terrible company whose crimes against humanity are legion. And shamelessly ripping off content from a radio show that I have written and performed for free over the last fifteen years is merely their latest shameful act.
I will be pursuing this matter to the fullest extent of the law.
We've reached out to Google for comment.