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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Kyle Adams is quite right about the proliferation of these things, especially in the earlier rap era. A turning point in the process, and probably the best-known case overall within the rap world, was Gilbert O'Sullivan's suit against Biz Markie's use of "Alone Again Naturally" (Grand Upright v. Warner, 1991). That suit, and many other song-related plagiarism suits, are detailed on this website, which I believe has not yet been mentioned in this thread and could be useful to the original inquirer:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Adam Krims</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr id=idSignature85585><PRE>Adam Krims
Professor of Music Analysis
University of Nottingham</PRE></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> smt-talk-bounces@societymusictheory.org on behalf of Kyle adams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 12/18/2009 14:45<BR><B>To:</B> richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk; smt-talk@societymusictheory.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Smt-talk] Music Plagiarism Cases<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>This may not be exactly the same as "plagiarism," but rap artists have been subject to numerous lawsuits over the use of sampled music. Among the most well-known of these are the suit brought by Queen against Vanilla Ice for his sampling "Under Pressure" in "Ice Ice Baby," and the suit brought by the Turtles against De La Soul for their sampling "You Showed Me" in "Transmitting Live from Mars."</DIV>
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<DIV>Although both of those lawsuits had a great deal of influence on later rappers' decisions whether or not to use sampled music, both were settled out of court. One case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court is the suit brought by representatives of Roy Orbison against the 2 Live Crew for their parody of his song "Pretty Woman" (surprisingly for the 2 Live Crew, this had nothing to do with obscenity). Wikipedia has a pretty good description of the case:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>There is also the now-famous cease and desist order brought by EMI on behalf of Paul McCartney against producer Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) for The Grey Album, but I believe this one also never made it into court.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Kyle Adams</DIV>
<DIV>Assistant Professor of Music Theory</DIV>
<DIV>Indiana University</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 12/18/09, Richard Lewis <I><richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk><BR>Subject: [Smt-talk] Music Plagiarism Cases<BR>To: smt-talk@societymusictheory.org<BR>Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 7:22 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>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="http://us.mc308.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ironchicken@jabber.earth.li">ironchicken@jabber.earth.li</A><BR><A href="http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/" target=_blank>http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/</A><BR>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<BR>+----------------------------------------------+<BR>| Support open access to scholarship |<BR>| <A href="http://freeculture.org/" target=_blank>http://freeculture.org/</A> <A href="http://www.doaj.org/" target=_blank>http://www.doaj.org/</A> |<BR>+----------------------------------------------+<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Smt-talk mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc308.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org"></B></FONT><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.mc308.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be</b></font> <FONT color=red><B>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.mc308.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org" target=_blank>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></DIV><br/>
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