From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!vax135!cornell!hal Newsgroups: net.music Title: Re: GIBBS GUILTY! FEVER FANS FORLORN! Article-I.D.: cornell.4022 Posted: Fri Feb 25 15:52:48 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 01:35:30 1983 References: ihuxw.288 Yup. George Harrison lost his copyright infringment case also. It's a good thing Bach lived several hundred years ago. He would be up to his ears in copyright litigation if he had to put up with such laws. Our legal system seems to have lost the distinction between theft of intellectual property and coincidental similarities or using another composer's material as the inspiration for an original work of art. Hal Perkins