On 11/30/2011 02:57 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
On 11/30/2011 07:47 AM, Julien Claassen wrote:
The Chiffons. From Wikipedia :
"Harrison denied deliberately plagiarising the song, but he lost the resulting court case in 1976 as the judge deemed that Harrison had "subconsciously" plagiarised "He's So Fine". When considering liable earnings, "My Sweet Lord"'s contribution to the sales of /All Things Must Pass/ and /The Best of George Harrison <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_George_Harrison>/ were taken into account, and the judge decided a figure of $1,599,987 was owed to Bright Tunes.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison#cite_note-Plagiarism-96> The dispute over damages became complicated when Harrison's former manager Allen Klein <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Klein> purchased the copyright to "He's So Fine" from Bright Tunes in 1978. In 1981, a district judge decided that Klein had acted improperly, and it was agreed that Harrison should pay Klein $587,000, the amount Klein had paid for "He's So Fine", so he would gain nothing from the deal, and that Harrison would take over ownership of Bright Tunes, making him the owner of the rights to both "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine" and thus ending the copyright infringement claim. Though the dispute dragged on into the 1990s, the district judge's decision was upheld."
Another recent example is the signature flute in Men At Work's - Down Under and a nursery song [1][2]. It's a sad state of affairs...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra_%28song%29 [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOIdtKZTG4 Brendan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
