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Man claims Muse stole his "science-fiction rock opera" idea

With their new album, "The 2nd Law," about to be released in three weeks, British rock band Muse has just been sued by one Charles Bolfrass. Bolfrass alleges that the band stole his rock opera idea and the cover design for the album which the song "Exogenesis" is a part - "The Resistance".

As usual with these types of cases, I'm skeptical and have to believe it's nothing more than an attempt to get some money out of the deal. "The Resistance" was released on September 14th of 2009 - almost exactly three years ago. I'd think if Mr. Bolfrass REALLY felt the band stole his ideas, he would have come forward a little sooner than that. It's not like it was an underground album of any kind. It was a huge success commercially and the band seemed to go on a never-ending world tour to promote said album. It went Gold in nine countries, Platinum in six others, Double-Platinum in one and Diamond in another. Perhaps Mr. Bolfrass was in a coma for three years and suddenly awakened a couple days ago, only to be informed of the news! If that's the case, Muse has an early song by the name of "Coma" - perhaps Bolfrass should sue them for that as well.

http://www.nme.com/news/muse/66016
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