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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: No need to register copyrights. |
| Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:16:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ~~~yeah. but that still sucks.
jocelyn
>
>
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