Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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?

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