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re: You Took a Whole Lot of Words Right Out of My Mouth (NJC)

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bellminer 12:23 am UTC 04/17/13
In reply to: re: You Took a Whole Lot of Words Right Out of My Mouth (NJC) - fnord 09:46 pm UTC 04/16/13

You can't copyright a title. You also can't copyright an idea. It would have to use the same lyrics or music to be a viable case.

Then again, we have a court system that ruled you can be liable for a "subconscious" infringement, so anything's possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord#Copyright_infringement_suit

> Actually... I seem to recall a lawsuit shortly after Back
> Into Hell came out where another songwriter claimed Jim
> plagiarized a song called, "Objects In the Rearview Mirror
> Are Closer Than They Appear." I don't know where you'd
> go with that, though; there's no double meaning, no
> wistful rememberance of childhood past, no twist on the
> cliche. Unless he was singing about a car accident.


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