self plagiarism

From: <CNICOPY[_at_]charlie.usd.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 19:02:11 -0500 (CDT)

I seem to remember a case where someone authored a work. He then assigned the copyright to someone else. After the assisgnment, he created a second work in which he used some of the same expression that he used in the first work. The person to whom he assigned the first copyright then sued him for infringement and won. My memory about this case is highly selective which is very frustrating. I think it was a case involving music, but I am not certain. If someone can remember the citation or assist my memory by providing more facts, it may
be relevant to the question raised earlier on self plagiarism.

Mary Brandt Jensen       		CNICOPY[_at_]CHARLIE.USD.EDU
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