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This website comprises hundreds of documents (texts, scores, audio and video files)
associated with music copyright infringement cases in the United States from 1845
forward. These documents have been collected and edited by Charles Cronin, a librarian at
Columbia Law School, who is also responsible for all analysis and commentary in this site.
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The purpose of this project is to capitalize on the distributed nature of digital
information systems to collect, organize and distribute graphic and audio
materials associated with music copyright infringement cases in the United
States from the middle of the nineteenth century on. This documentation,
especially for cases over twenty-five years old, is difficult to obtain and has
never before been systematically collected or published in print or electronic
format. Our goal is to accumulate and publish a complete collection of music
copyright infringement opinions, comments about the musical works they
consider, and graphic and sound files of relevant portions of these works.

Plagiarism per se is not grounds for a tort claim; one sues for copyright
Purpose and Content infringement based on an alleged plagiarism. While many instances of
plagiarism are not actionable under copyright law, we use this term because it
has long been associated with the broad notions of wrongful appropriation and
List of Cases publication as one's own of another's expression that are at the heart of these
music copyright disputes.
Discussion and Questions
We hope too that this project will prompt inquiry into the question of how
List of Song Titles digital music technologies, notation software in particular, might be used
effectively in analyzing and arguing music copyright infringement disputes.
To this end, in partnership with Columbia's Center for New Media Teaching
Technical Information and Learning, we offer initial suggestions along these lines in the "Discussion
and Questions" component of the site. We intend to supplement this
A Word on Copyright pedagogical and theoretical segment with a list of print and electronic sources
dealing with music plagiarism.

Website Authors
This is a work-in-progress and not yet an exhaustive collection of U.S. music
plagiarism cases for which there are published opinions. It now includes,
Acknowledgements however, many of these cases, and contains at least partial documentation
associated with a sufficient number of them to be useful to practicing lawyers,
academicians, musicians and anyone curious about this quirky corner of
Contact Information
copyright law. One can easily obtain audio recordings and other
documentation associated with recent cases like Acuff-Rose; we will post
materials associated with recent cases, but our initial concern is to make
available obscure works from earlier ones. Please read the brief "Technical
Information" statement if you have questions about access to materials on the
website. We welcome readers' contributions of comments, corrections and
documents.

Charles Cronin
Reference Librarian
Columbia Law School

© 2002 Columbia University

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Purpose and Content

Music copyright infringement suits often involve unknown musicians seeking compensation from
financially successful songwriters and performers, for alleged misappropriation of the intellectual content
of musical numbers that were never published, or that enjoyed limited circulation. Judicial opinions
typically turn on the court's musical analyses of the works in dispute, but these analyses are not
meaningful to the reader without audio and visual representation of the musical numbers under scrutiny.
These numbers are not, of course, presented along with the court's opinion, and complaining works in
particular are generally accessible only from the court’s case docket or from the files of the attorneys
involved. Unless, then, one somehow already knows the disputed works, one cannot properly evaluate the
court's published opinion. To do so, one needs to see the score of the musical work, and/or see and hear a
recorded performance of it -- the latter increasingly important as audio engineering and performance style
become ever more vital to the commercial success of popular numbers. This can be surprisingly difficult;
while everyone has heard of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and can obtain the sheet music and recording of
Phantom, who has heard of Ray Repp, and his "Till You," that he claims Webber’s work plagiarized?
Even commercially successful works of popular music have fleeting appeal and brief shelf lives; within a
decade or so of publication, the recording and sheet music of once-popular numbers can often be found
only in specialized archives, or occasionally, tattered and shopworn, in the collections of municipal
libraries.

To improve access to this information -- access particularly helpful to legal scholars writing from a
historical perspective on music copyright issues -- this on-line archive will present audio and graphic
representations of musical works that are, or have been, the subject of adjudicated music plagiarism cases.
Text files summarize and comment upon each case, and contain the full text of the court’s opinion. Image
files provide representations of pertinent segments of the musical works in question through standard
music notation; sound files include both MIDI files with non-stylized renditions of the purely musical
content of relevant portions of the disputed numbers, and also streaming audio clips taken from analog
and digital recordings of performances that were intended for public delectation.

We believe that this on-line archive will be useful to copyright academics, attorneys practicing in this
area, and to musicians seeking insight into an entertaining though cabalistic topic. It will offer new means
of accessing and analyzing information that pertains to an area of law that now begs inquiry into the issue
of how changes in the creation, content, dissemination and consumption of popular music in America in
the 20th Century - which have not, for the most part, been acknowledged by the copyright bar - should
inform music copyright infringement judges and litigants, who tend to approach their work with the
paradigms developed for disputes involving Tin Pan Alley numbers in the early decades of this century.

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Case List

Before 1900
Reed v. Carusi

Jollie v. Jaques

Blume v. Spear

1910 - 1919
Cooper v. James
(materials in
preparation)

Boosey v. Empire

Haas v. Leo Feist

1920 - 1929
Marks v. Feist

Hein v. Harris

Fisher v. Dillingham

Italian Book Co. v.

Rossi

1930 - 1939
Wilkie v. Santly Bros.

Norden v. Oliver
Ditson

Arnstein v. Edward
Marks

Hirsch v. Paramount
Pictures

Arnstein v. ASCAP

1940 - 1949
 Darrell v. Joe Morris
Music Co.

Davilla v. Harms

Allen v. Walt Disney

Prods.

Carew v. R.K.O. Radio

Pictures

McMahon v. Harms

Arnstein v. Twentieth
Century-Fox

Brodsky v. Universal
Pictures

Jewel Music Publishing

Co. v. Feist

Heim v. Universal
Pictures

Arnstein v. BMI

Arnstein v. Porter

Baron v. Feist

1950 - 1959
Shapiro, Bernstein v.
Miracle

Jones v. Supreme
Music Corp

Northern Music Corp.

v. King Record
Distribution Co.

Overman v. Loesser
(materials in
preparation)

Robertson v. Batten,
Barton, Durstine &
Osborne

Wihtol v. Wells

Dorchester Music
Corp. v. National
Broadcasting Co.

1960 - 1969
Berlin et al. v. E.C.
Publications, Inc.
(materials in
preparation)

Nordstrom v. RCA
 Leo Feist v. Apollo
Records

1970 - 1979
Strachborneo v. Arc
Music Corp

Bright Tunes Music v.

Harrisongs Music

MCA v. Wilson

Granite Music v.
United Artists

Ferguson v. N.B.C.

Plymouth Music v.
Magnus Organ

Herald Square Music v.

Living Music

1980 - 1989
Testa v. Janssen

Selle v. Gibb

Benson v. The Coca-

Cola

Baxter v. MCA

Gaste v. Kaiserman

1990 - 2000
Dawson v. Hinshaw
Music

Levine v. McDonald's

Intersong-USA v. CBS

Grand Upright v.
Warner (materials in
preparation)

Moore v. Columbia
Pictures

Tempo Music v.
Famous Music

Fantasy v. Fogerty

Acuff-Rose Music v.
Campbell

Cartier v. Jackson
(materials in
preparation)
La Cienega v. Billy
Gibbons (materials in
preparation)

Repp v. Lloyd-Webber

Selletti v. Carey
(materials in
preparation)

Smith v. Michael
Jackson

Ellis v. Diffie

McKinley v. Cox
(materials in
preparation)

Three Boys Music v.

Michael Bolton
Introduction > Notation Software and Determination of Melodic Similarity > Melodic Analysis and Popular Music after 1960

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Introduction

We hope that the following discussion may suggest Referenced Music

the potential of music notation software to provide
more efficient and effective methods of establishing Arab/Woodpecker Original
or disproving similarities between musical works Woodpecker transposed to E-flat
than those that have been used until now in music
plagiarism suits. Most of the techniques offered here Arab/Woodpecker Superimposed
of manipulating musical data have been anticipated Arab Accompaniment / Woodpecker Theme Correspondence
by musicians who have testified in music copyright
Arab/Woodpecker Coherence
cases with cumbersome diagrams, audiotapes, and
perhaps even an instrument (the first appearance of Four Popular Songs
which must inevitably spark a distracting frisson
Beethoven Theme
among those in the courtroom). The efficiency,
however, with which one can carry out these musical Haydn Menuet
manipulations using notation software, the excellent Let It End
audio and graphic renditions it produces, and the
ease of dissemination of graphic and audio files How Deep is Your Love
associated with digital scores, are among the Run Through the Jungle
advantages of applying this relatively new
technology to this curious intersection of music and The Old Man Down the Road
law.

Referenced Cases
Our discussion considers first the applications of
notation software and the use of the software itself Hein v. Harris
to demonstrate the similarities or differences
Selle v. Gibb
between two or more musical works. Second, we
consider use of search engines to retrieve prior art Fantasy v. Fogerty
from thematic or full score collections of digital
music data. Our objective is not to attempt an
exhaustive treatment of the applications of these Tools and Resources
technologies, but rather to provoke readers to
experiment with them, or at least to reflect upon Themefinder
their potential efficacy in this area. We have posed a
New Zealand Digital Music Library
number of questions too, that we hope readers will
respond to given our aim to have the site present, QuickTime
eventually, diverse viewpoints on the issues it raises.
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Titles and authors

The publisher of a successful popular number usually owns the

copyright to it, and the publisher, and not the author, of a disputed
work is typically the defendant in music copyright infringement
litigation. Many know that the Bee Gees were involved in a copyright
infringement case, but few know that the Bee Gees are the Gibb
brothers, and from the case list it is not immediately apparent which
case is associated with this pop group. This list of titles and authors
cross-referenced to the case list, will assist readers who are more
familiar with the disputed songs than with the names of the parties
involved to identify the cases they seek to review.

Title of Work Author(s) File_Name Year

A Modern Messiah Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
A Mother's Prayer Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
Alone Again Naturally Raymond "Gilbert" Grand Upright v. Warner 1991
O'Sullivan
Amazing Grace W.M. Cooper Cooper v. James 1914
Amazing Grace Joseph James Cooper v. James 1914
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody Irving Berlin Irving Berlin et al.v. 1963
E.C.Publications, Inc.
Bad Lands of Dakota Salter Brodsky v. Universal 1945
Pictures
Begin the Beguine Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
Boogie Chillen John Hooker and La Cienega Music Co. v. 1995
Bernard Besman ZZ Top
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Don Raye and MCA Music v. Earl 1976
Hughie Prince Wilson
Call Me Back Again W. D. Hendrickson Blume v. Spear 1887
Carnival in Cotton Town Louis Ricca Jewel Music v. Leo Feist 1945
Chatterbox Evelyn Carew Carew v. R.K.O. Radio 1942
Pictures
Chatterbox Jerome Brainan Carew v. R.K.O. Radio 1942
Pictures
Confessing W.A. (Bud) Wilkie Willkie v. Santly Brothers 1935
Dangerous Crystal Cartier Cartier v. Jackson 1995
Dangerous Michael Jackson Cartier v. Jackson 1995
Dardanella Felix Bernard & Fred Fisher, Inc. v. 1924
Johnny Black Dillingham
Day by Day Steven Schwartz Herald Square Music Co. 1978
v. Living Music
Desert Song Sigmund Romberg Davilla v. Harms 1940
Does Anybody Want a Little Jack Darrell Darrell v. Joe Morris 1940
Kewpie Music
Don't Cha Know John Benson Benson v. Coca-Cola 1986
Don't Fence Me In Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
Don't Let the Sunshine Robert Smith and Smith v. Michael Jackson 1996
Reynard Jones
Drummer Boy Roger Edens Jewel Music v. Leo Feist 1945
Es Enrique Chia Intersong-USA v. CBS 1991
Ezek'el Saw The Wheel Anonymous Dawson v. Hinshaw 1990
Music
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel William Dawson Dawson v. Hinshaw 1990
(Arr.) Music
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Gilbert Martin Dawson v. Hinshaw 1990
(Arr.) Music
Feelings Morris Kaiserman Louis Gaste v. Morris 1988
(aka Morris Albert) Kaiserman
Got My Mojo Working McKinley Strachborneo v. Arc 1973
Morganfield Music
Kept on Singing Philip J. Lipari Testa v. Janssen 1980
Hero Christopher Selletti Selletti v. Carey 1997
Hero Mariah Carey Selletti v. Carey 1997
He's So Fine Ronald Mack Bright Tunes Music v. 1976
Harrisongs Music
Hey Mario Balducci Intersong-USA v. CBS 1991
Hiding the Wine Ernest Gold Granite Music v. United 1976
Artists
How Deep is Your Love Barry Gibb et al. Selle v. Gibb 1984
Humoresque in G Major, op.101 Dvorak Heim v. Universal 1946
Pictures
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Al Piantadosi Haas v. Leo Feist 1916
Solider
I Dreamed Charles Green Dorchester Music v. 1959
N.B.C.
I Hear You Calling Me Charles Marshall Boosey v. Empire Music 1915
I Love You Madly Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Edward Marks 1936
Music
I Love You Madly Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
I Love You, Yes I Do Henry B. Glover Northern Music v. King 1952
Record
I Need a Haircut Biz Markie Grand Upright v. Warner 1991
I Think About You Collin Raye Suzane McKinley v. 1999
Collin Raye
I Think About You Suzane McKinley Suzane McKinley v. 1999
Collin Raye
I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Joseph E. Howard Hein v. Harris 1923
I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke Coca-Cola Benson v. Coca-Cola 1986
Company
If I Were a Spider Joseph Davilla Davilla v. Harms 1940
In Sunny Kansas Joseph McMahon McMahon v. Harms 1942
It All Comes Back to Me Now Hy Zaret et al. Arnstein v. Broadcast 1943
Music
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Harry Warren Arnstein v. Twentieth 1943
Century-Fox
Jeannie Michele Wilma Ferguson Ferguson v. N.B.C. 1978
Joy Leslie Baxter Baxter v. MCA, Inc. 1987
Just an Old Fashioned Mother Thelma Jones Jones v. Supreme Music 1951
and Dad
Kalamazoo Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Twentieth 1943
Century-Fox
Ka-lu-a Jerome Kern Fred Fisher, Inc. v. 1924
Dillingham
Keep on Singing Danny Janssen and Testa v. Janssen 1980
Bobby Hart
Kept on Singing Philip J. Lipari Testa v. Janssen 1980
La Grange ZZ Top La Cienega Music Co. v. 1995
ZZ Top
Lady of Love Hortense Hirsch Hirsch v. Paramount 1937
Pictures
L'Annee Passee Lionel Belasco and Baron v. Leo Feist 1948
Massie Patterson
Lay Me Out By the Jukebox Everett Ellis Ellis v. Diffie 1999
When I Die
Let It End Ronald Selle Selle v. Gibb 1984
Life is a Rock (But the Radio Paul DiFranco and Levine v. McDonald's 1990
Rolled Me) Norman Dolph
Long Gone Alphonso Shapiro, Bernstein v. 1950
Tompkins and Miracle Record
Lewis Simpkins
Louella Schwartz Describes Her Frank Jacobs and Berling et.al. v. 1963
Malady Larry Siegel E.C.Publications, Inc.
Love is a Wonderful Thing Isley Brothers Three Boys Music v. 2000
Michael Bolton
Love is a Wonderful Thing Michael Bolton and Three Boys Music v. 2000
Andrew Goldmark Michael Bolton
Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses John Openshaw McMahon v. Harms 1942
Luna mezzo mare Paolo Citorello Italian Book Company v. 1928
(Arr.) Rossi
Ma Este Meg Boldog Vagyok Hajdu Imre (Heim) Heim v. Universal 1946
Pictures
Mamma mia m'ha maritari A. Galasso (Arr.) Italian Book Company v. 1928
Rossi
Maria Cahill's Arab Love Song Silvio Hein Hein v. Harris 1923
Menu Song for McDonald's McDonald's Levine v. McDonald's 1990
commercial Corporation
Mizpah or Shalom Frank Nordstrom Nordstrom v. R.C.A. 1965
MOJO Workout Ruth Stratchborneo Strachborneo v. Arc 1973
Music
My God and I Wihtol (I.B. Sergei) Wihtol v. Wells 1956
My God and I Latvian Folk Tune, Wihtol v. Wells 1956
arr. Wells
My Heart Belongs to Daddy Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
My Own Sweet Darling Fannie Beane Blume v. Spear 1887
My Sweet Lord George Harrison Bright Tunes Music v. 1976
Harrisongs Music
Near You Francis Craig Jones v. Supreme Music 1951
Night and Day Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
O Gladsome Light N. Lindsay Norden Norden v. Oliver Ditson 1936
(arranger)
O Gladsome Light Fisher (arranger) Norden v. Oliver Ditson 1936
Oh, Pretty Woman Williams Dees and Campbell v. Acuff-Rose 1994
Roy Orbison
Oh, Pretty Woman Luther Campbell et. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose 1994
al.
Old Eli Wadsworth Doster Allen v. Walt Disney 1941
On a Slow Boat to China Frank Loesser Overman v. Loesser 1953

On Our Own Antonio Reid and Moore v. Columbia 1992

Kenny Edmonds Pictures
On the Beach at Bali-Bali Sherman, Meskill, Darrell v. Joe Morris 1940
and Silver Music
Perhaps Aldo Franchetti Heim v. Universal 1946
Pictures
Phantom Song Andrew Lloyd- Repp v. Webber 1997
Webber
Play, Fiddle, Play Emery Deutsch and Arnstein v. Edward Marks 1936
Arthur Altman Music
Pour Toi Louis Gaste Louis Gaste v. Morris 1988
Kaiserman
Prelude in A Major Brodsky Brodsky v. Universal 1945
Pictures
Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox Joe Diffie Ellis v. Diffie 1999
(If I Die)
Rendezvous Fred Spielman Dorchester Music v. 1959
N.B.C.
Rum and Coca-Cola Jeri Sullivan and Baron v. Leo Feist 1948
Paul Baron
Run Through the Jungle John C. Fogerty Fantasy v. Fogerty 1994
Sadness O'erwhelms My Soul Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
Satin Doll Duke Ellington, Tempo Music v. Famous 1993
Billy Strayhorn, Music
Johnny Mercer
Shalom Jerry Herman Nordstrom v. R.C.A. 1965
She Can't Stand It Derrick D. Moore Moore v. Columbia 1992
Pictures
Someday My Prince Will Come Frank Churchill Allen v. Walt Disney 1941
Starlight Bernice Petkere, Willkie v. Santly Brothers 1935
words by Joe
Young
Swanee River Moon H. Pitman Clarke Marks v. Leo Feist, Inc. 1923
Tennessee, I Hear You Calling Jeff Godfrey Boosey v. Empire Music 1915
Me
The Cunnilingus Champion of Earl Wilson and MCA Music v. Earl 1976
Co. C Billy Cunningham Wilson
The Girl Is Mine Michael Jackson Smith v. Michael Jackson 1996
The Happy Whistler Donald Irwin Robertson v. Batten, 1956
Robertson Barton
The Holiday Polka Don Large Plymouth Music Co. v. 1978
Magnus Organ Corp.
The Lord is My Shepherd Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
The Old Arm Chair Henry Russell Reed v. Carusi 1845
The Old Man Down the Road John C. Fogerty Fantasy v. Fogerty 1994
The Serious Family Polka Anonymous Jollie v. Jaques 1850
Theme for television program Ray Ellis Herald Square Music Co. 1978
"This is Today" v. Living Music
Theme from 'A Time to Love' John Williams Ferguson v. N.B.C. 1978
Theme from 'E.T.' John Williams Baxter v. MCA, Inc. 1987
Till You Ray Repp Repp v. Webber 1997
Tiny Bubbles Leon Pober Granite Music v. United 1976
Artists
Tonight He Sailed Again Guy B. Wood and Northern Music v. King 1952
Sol Marcus Record
Toot, Toot, Tootsie Gus Kahn et al. Leo Feist v. Apollo 1969
Records
Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Latin Apollo Records Leo Feist v. Apollo 1969
arrangement.) Records
Twilight Waltz Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Porter 1946
We Are The World Michael Jackson Smith v. Michael Jackson 1996
and Lionel Richie
Wedding Dance Waltzes Paul Linke Marks v. Leo Feist, Inc. 1923
 What Is This Thing Called Love Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
What Will Become of the Robert Smith and Smith v. Michael Jackson 1996
Children Reynard Jones
Whisper to Me Ira Arnstein Arnstein v. Broadcast 1943
Music
Without a Word of Warning Harry Revel Hirsch v. Paramount 1937
Pictures
Wonderful You Robert Overman Overman v. Loesser 1953
Yancey Special Meade Lewis Shapiro, Bernstein v. 1950
Miracle Record
You Will Never Know How William Cahalin Haas v. Leo Feist 1916
Much I Really Cared
You'd Be So Nice To Come Cole Porter Arnstein v. Porter 1946
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Author

Charles Cronin, B.A. Oberlin; J.D. American; M.A., Ph.D. Stanford; M.I.M.S. Berkeley, from
New York, is a librarian at Columbia Law School.

Student Assistants

Yelena Grinberg from New York is a third-year dual-degree student at Barnard and Juilliard.

Jerin Kurian from Queens is a second-year Computer Science major at Columbia.

Aaron Prado from San Antonio recently graduated from Columbia as a Philosophy major.

Carl Schoonover from Paris is a first-year undergraduate at Columbia.

Josh Shipper from New York is a fourth-year American Studies major at Pomona.

Matthew Urbanek from Atherton, California is second-year Music major at Columbia.

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Acknowledgements

With greater success than Blanche DuBois, we "have always depended on the kindness of
strangers" to obtain documents for this website from public archives, music retailers, law
firms, and research library collections. We thank particularly the following individuals and
organizations whom we would like to presume are now friends given their disinterested
assistance with this project:

Bettendorf, Iowa Public Library

William Bolcom of the University of Michigan Music Department
Jay Bowen of Bowen Riley Warnock & Jacobson in Nashville
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Cazenovia College Library
The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
Columbia University Music Department
Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
Cornell University Libraries
Dartmouth College Library
Duke University Music Library
Emory University Libraries
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Florida Public Library
Hinshaw Music, Inc. in Chapel Hill.
Jackson, Mississippi District Library
Judith Finell of Judith Finell Music Services in Scarsdale, New York
M. William Krasilovsky in New York
Martin Rosenberg and the National Archives in New York
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
New York University Libraries
Robert Osterberg of Abelman, Frayne & Schwab in New York.
Patchogue Medford Library
Princeton University Libraries
Ray Repp of Ferrisburgh, Vermont
Stanford University Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Library
UCLA Music Library
University of Florida Libraries
University of Mississippi, John Davis Williams Library
Wellesley, Massachusetts Free Library
Youngstown State University Libraries

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