Bob Dylan accused of plagiarism
By IANSFriday, May 22, 2009
NEW YORK - The poem ‘Little Buddy’, which was considered to be singer Bob Dylan’s original work, is apparently actually an old country song.
The news came just 24 hours after the original handwritten version of ‘Little Buddy’ was put up for auction by Christie’s, reported themirror.co.uk.
The song had been touted as an example of Dylan’s ‘brilliance even as a 16-year-old’. But, as a country fan pointed out, most of the words were from a song by Canadian Hank Snow.
It was recorded in 1948, 11 years before Dylan submitted his poem to a Jewish summer camp newspaper in Wisconsin.
Christie’s is pressing on with the auction here as it is for charity.
The poem was expected to fetch up to over $150,000.
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June 5, 2009: 8:53 am
Bob Dylan Sued Over Dignity For Plagiarism Camden NJ June 2, 2009 -Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds. As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS used songs and Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan, James has engaged in a multimillion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan. It is judicially uncontested by Bob Dylan and or Bob Dylan’s law firms Manatt, Phelps & Phillips , Parcher Hayes & Snyder, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Heck Brown and Sherry and Sony House Counsel that Bob Dylan and people in Bob Dylan’s entourage have solicited James Damiano’s songs and music for over ten years and eleven months, as per the law suit. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle states in his decision “This court will accept as true Plaintiff’s allegations that Sony represented to him that he would be credited and compensated for his work if Dylan used it. Judge Simandle also stated in his decision “Plaintiff has demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendants had access to his work. Richard Frankel |
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