Sound familiar?

A little exercise in exploring ideas about intellectual property...is this stealing?

The Chiffons in 1963:



George Harrison in 1970:



Read about the subsequent legal battle here.

There's been no legal dispute, however, been T-Rex, seen here in 1971:

...and "derivative" Oasis, who released this in 1994:

Is there enough of a similarity between this song, written in 1932:

and this 1983 hit:

to justify this?

The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP)

A very interesting project involving Upper-Level (A scoring) undergraduate student papers at the University of Michigan has produced this corpus of texts, which looks like to be a very nice teaching & learning resource indeed...