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From: Don <fastslow@idt.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:59:40 -0700
Subject: Re: EJ's "tribute" to Princess Di
To: lvermeer@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Leslie Vermeer)
Cc: love-hounds@gryphon.com
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At 8:53 AM -0700 9-17-97, Leslie Vermeer wrote: >>EJ did not write the lyrics to the original nor do the rewrite. >> >>The credit/blame belongs to Bernie Taupin. >> >>Also, I don't live in Belgium, but I think that, even there, a person has >>the RIGHT to change the lyrics to a song he wrote. > >Well, I don't know...didn't John Fogerty get dragged through court for >plagiarizing his own music? ;) Yes. He had the right to change the lyrics, but the lawsuit claimed that he couldn't use the same music a second time and claim the music portion of the song as "new" music. What was the problem with that? He had a new music publisher and the old one feeling he was being ripped off. - Don