On Mon, Jun 12, 2000, Robert Cumbow <rcumbow[_at_]grahamdunn.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Tim Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> wrote:
> >
> > In music, the doctrine of "unconscious infringement" makes even
> > original songwriting chancy, as Jerome Kern and George Harrison
> > discovered to their rue.
>
> I know the Harrison case. What was the Kern case?
Was it Jerome Kern? Could have been. It was a famous early 1900's composer who admitted that he had heard the original work and sub-consciously, without realizing its source, included it in his work. Anyway, I thought that the cases stood for the proposition that copying even "unconscious copying" was infringement.
James Brennan
<brennandot[_at_]prodigy.net>
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 15:11:09 GMT
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