From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!wbux5!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxw!tommyo
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: GIBBS GUILTY! FEVER FANS FORLORN!
Article-I.D.: ihuxw.288
Posted: Thu Feb 24 17:29:48 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 06:35:28 1983
Reply-To: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor)


So the Brothers Gibb have been found guilty of plagiarism.  It seems
almost impossible.  For you uninformed, a fellow from Ill. took the
Bee Gees to court, saying that their hit HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE from
"Saturday Night Fever" was stolen from a song he had written about
2 years earlier, I forget his title.  The words differed, but the
music was supposedly similar.  The "original" had never been released
though it got sent to some record companies.  Anyway, a court found
the Bee Gees guilty.  There was a copy of the opening notes from
each version in today`s Chicago Sun-Times.  You couldn`t trade songs
note for note, but they were very close, the first 4 or 5 being
exactly the same.  Personally, I can`t believe that such a popular
group with such talent would actually purposely "steal" somebody`s
song.

As a followup, wasn`t George Harrison sued some years back for
copywrite infringment?  As I recall, it was claimed that his
MY SWEET LORD was taken from the old Chiffons tune HE`S SO FINE.
Does anyone remember if he lost or won that case?

Tom O`Connor
ihuxw!tommyo