fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
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To veer, I remember listening to Bless Its Pointed Little Head when it first came out and being shocked, SHOCKED!!!! I tell you, when Jorma played the exact same phrase/riff in solos in two different songs. Of course he was borrowing from himself but....
And we were probably misreading each other if you think I disagreed with you. If the suit had merit now then it had merit in the 1970's and should have been filed then. I can list the excuses why it wasn't filed then but sometimes You Snooze, You Lose and there is no going back. We are only having this discussion because quirks in copyright laws allowed LZ to extend the copyright with the reissue but also reopened the window for infringement claims. In fact I could argue that the real problem is that a remaster of an existing work has a different, but related, copyright status compared to the original.
I think I'll go shut up and play my bass
