# Is this the world's most ridiculous copyright lawsuit?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 31, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-worlds-most-ridiculous-copyright-lawsuit/504854 "2009-07-31T07:58:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-worlds-most-ridiculous-copyright-lawsuit/504854/101 "2010-07-06T18:22:20Z")

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I can’t believe that no one has brought up the time that Fantasy Records sued that guy from Creedence for copying his own songs.

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**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-worlds-most-ridiculous-copyright-lawsuit/504854/102 "2010-07-06T20:20:04Z")

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> [@acsenray](#):
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> I can’t believe that no one has brought up the time that Fantasy Records sued that guy from Creedence for copying his own songs.

Really? When did that happen? It was the guy with the beard right?

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