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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: No need to register copyrights. |
| Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:06:44 -0400 |
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At 09:50 PM 9/9/2003 -0700, Jocelyn Geboy wrote:
>> Thee are a ton of these. Didn't John Fogerty
>> totally rip off Creedence
>> Clearwater Revival on "The Old Man Down the Road"?
>>
>> ~~~~~~~even though i understand he can be a pompous
>controlling ass, i gotta say, i was always confused
>about this.. you mean, rip off himself?
He doesn't own the publishing for the Creedence songs, which he signed away
to Saul Zaentz and Fantasy Records back when was a kid who didn't know any
better. So when "The Old Man Down the Road" came out and sounded a hell of
a lot like the old CCR hit "Run Through the Jungle," Zaentz sued for
infringement of a copyright he owned; legally, it didn't matter that
Fogerty had written both songs, because he didn't own the copyright on the
earlier song.
S
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