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To: 999replies

hmmmm, having to pay a royalty for barrowing from a nursery rhyme. Me thinks there are more that a few Rap groups that might be worried with this ruling.


3 posted on 07/08/2010 12:56:19 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
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They deliberately put the flute riff in to assert their Australianess.


5 posted on 07/08/2010 1:01:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“hmmmm, having to pay a royalty for barrowing from a nursery rhyme. Me thinks there are more that a few Rap groups that might be worried with this ruling.”

If copyright law were rigorously enforced with regard to stuff like this, the entire genre of rap and hip-hop would cease to exist.


21 posted on 07/08/2010 9:03:56 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Hang in there, baby! November's comin'...)
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