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Subject: Re: re: Copyright Violations - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:13:28 EST
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inmet!andrew    Mar 19 13:45:00 1984

Right!  Has anyone established that Weird Al did indeed copyright his
parody lyrics?  Many people who parody others' songs prefer to avoid the legal 
hassles involved and leave their own names out of the writing credits.  (Allan
Sherman, when satirizing a popular song, always gave all the composing
credits to the original writers - but when the subject of the parody was
in the public domain, he credited himself and his arranger, Lou Busch.)