<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Dear Prof. Lewis,</div><div><br></div><div>In Brazil, last decade (if I am not mistaken), there was a lawsuit won by relatives of composer Heckel Tavares against pop music composer Fagner. I don't remember specifics right now, but if there is interest I could do some research.</div><div><br></div>Best,<div><br></div><div>Clσvis<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#004080"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Clσvis de Andrι<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <<a href="mailto:clovis.deandre@ajato.com.br">clovis.deandre@ajato.com.br</a>></span></span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>phone: (55 + 11) 3816-1696</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 64, 128); font-weight: bold; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> Professor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> (Music History [MH]; Canto)</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> Editor <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> (Revista ACSM Arte e Cultura Santa Marcelina)</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> FASM - Faculdade Santa Marcelina [MH] &</span></font></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> FIC - Faculdade Integral Cantareira [MH] Sγo Paulo, SP</span></font></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> Ph.D. in Historical Musicology (2005 - SUNY-Buffalo, USA)</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#004080" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 64, 128); font-weight: bold; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#004080" face="Arial"><b> alternative e-mail<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <<a href="mailto:candre@buffalo.edu">candre@buffalo.edu</a>></span></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 64, 128); font-weight: bold; "></span></div></span></span></font></div></span></b></span></font></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></b></span></font></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2009, at 10h22m17s, Richard Lewis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear SMT,<br><br>This question may be better directed at law scholars, but a colleague<br>is interested in finding cases of music plagiarism which have been<br>heard in court (in any country, but English or German proceedings will<br>be easiest to read). Anyone know of any?<br><br>Best,<br>Richard<br>-- <br>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br>Richard Lewis<br>ISMS, Computing<br>Goldsmiths, University of London<br>Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134<br>Skype: richardjlewis<br>JID: <a href="mailto:ironchicken@jabber.earth.li">ironchicken@jabber.earth.li</a><br><a href="http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/">http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/</a><br>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br>+----------------------------------------------+<br>| Support open access to scholarship |<br>| http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ |<br>+----------------------------------------------+<br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br>Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org<br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>