# Old Songs that under today's rules infringed on copyright.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-under-todays-rules-infringed-on-copyright/717169 "2015-04-09T00:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-under-todays-rules-infringed-on-copyright/717169/21 "2015-04-10T01:05:13Z")

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So, right after I posted the thing about “Love Has No Pride” and “At This Moment” , I decided to exercise my Google-Fu and see if anyone else had ever noticed the similarities.

I knew there was nothing obvious before I posted, but I played with the search terms a bit and looked at the results past the first pages. I finally see a reference in a google groups thread. So I scroll down and I find the post. Cool, I think. Someone else has noticed the similarity. And that person happens to go by my first name ( my real one, not Ann).  
Then I’m thinking - this person even used similar phrasing , she said they sounded an awful lot alike. Then I’m , wait – this person used an unrelated song lyric as a sig line. And it’s the same lyric I used about a million years ago. Well not a million, 12 to 15 to be exact.

I managed to google an old alt.fan.cecil-adams thread and found a post I wrote a long time ago. So I guess I really am the only one who noticed the similarity.

Here’s a link to the thread, they have some interesting ones.  
[https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.fan.cecil-adams/aSHjqtEjRVQ](https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.fan.cecil-adams/aSHjqtEjRVQ)

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-under-todays-rules-infringed-on-copyright/717169/22 "2015-04-10T02:07:05Z")

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They go dee dee dee da da dee dee. I go dee dee dee da da dee dee chik.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-under-todays-rules-infringed-on-copyright/717169/23 "2015-04-10T02:47:26Z")

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John Fogerty was actually sued for plagiarizing himself (Someone else owned the CCR catalogue). Thank goodness Louis Jordan was dead by that point; he had at least three hits with exactly the same melody back in the 40s.

Fogerty won that lawsuit, BTW, but had the devil’s own time collecting his legal fees back.

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