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Magne,
The nasty little secret about songwriting lawsuits are that no one wins on those either. The legal fees ALWAYS outway anything the writer would make out of a suit and the bad feelings and damage to a professional career are permanant.
The biggest lawsuit here, the "George Harrison" My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine" lawsuit in the 70's (that was settled in the late 80's) resulted in collusion between George Harrison's manager, Alan Klein, and the writers and publishers of the song "He's So Fine." After about 15 years of legal wrangling, Harrison was proved to subconsiously lifted the song from the original song, and did pay a fine. But then was awarded the publishing company of the original songs. So in the end, he paid the fine, to himself.
All of this legal mess we have all drifted into simply poisons the dialogue. And like everything else, just what we need in life is more negativity.
It's too bad.
MAB
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