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Subject: Re: re: Copyright Violations - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:12:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 06:12:08 1984
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inmet!porges    Mar 19 12:55:00 1984

	Actually, considering the shaky legal grounds of satire, this is a 
particularly strange case of copyright infringement.  After all, Weird Al's
success is totally parasitical upon a song by somebody else!  Also, it's not
quite true that, as the previous correspondent said, the lyrics are the *only*
important (and thus protectable) part of the song, though if you don't have
your MTV you might not have seen it....the video of this song is an uncanny
shot for shot and move for move parody of the orginal "Beat It" video, so the
words aren't actually the best thing anyway!

					-- Don Porges
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