Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges From: porges@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: re: Copyright Violations - (nf) Message-ID: <1120@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:12:08 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1120 Posted: Tue Mar 20 06:12:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 00:35:00 EST Lines: 16 #R:unc:-693400:inmet:4000049:000:704 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 ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges