Reply #164: countless suits

[Greyskye]

Countless suits, because I certainly wasn't counting them as they came up. When I was in high school (late 70's), I remember lots of news reports regarding various artists suing because their songs were being sampled without attribution. I don't have a Find Law account, and the quick Google that I did only came up with stuff like this: http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_licensed_ill/ - which certainly speaks to the complexity of the whole sampling subculture. I doubt that there are many on-line references to the lawsuits that I remember, as that was in the ancient pre-net days. BBS's were the limit of the tech at the time. :D

"I know that Dylan played a number of what are known as 'traditional', or 'trad' tunes."

He also played other peoples stuff that had just been written by other Village folk musicians, and they played his stuff, and nobody cared because they just wanted to play music, and they didn't have sticks up their asses about copyrights.

I was never a big Dylan fan, so I am unfamiliar with what you say above. Did Dylan ever record a song written by someone else, and fail to give attribution?

If you want me to talk further about which one is good and the other bad, you need to provide me with some actual examples of Dylan or Elvis songs that are, according to you, 'bad'."

I'm not saying they're bad at all. It's your argument.

Sigh. That wasn't my argument, which is why I used quotes around 'bad'. OK, can you give me some examples of Dylan or Elvis songs which they recorded, which were written by someone else, and that Dylan or Elvis failed to give attribution to the original artists?