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