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

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steven_stuart 02:26 am UTC 04/18/13
In reply to: re: You Took a Whole Lot of Words Right Out of My Mouth (NJC) - EvilNickname 06:51 am UTC 04/17/13

Thanks for posting the link to the article. I didn't know that Meat was also sued. Does anybody know what the out of court settlement was?

> Article at the link below.
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes. You are right. Jim was sued by some guy who claimed
> > that he had written the song. They settled out of court.
> > You can't just sue over title (there are many The Power Of
> > Loves out there) or idea (there would be lawsuits flying
> > all over the place). This was more complicated.


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