Three vignettes on Copyrights:
Cat Stevens recently "forgave" Coldplay for ripping off his "Foreigner Suite" on their song "Viva La Vida." Here's his quote (via Stereogum), a clip of the Stevens song, and "Viva La Vida" (rest assured: this is the ONLY reason I would ever post a Coldplay song):
Fellow Brit hitmaker JK Rowling is having similar problems with (bogus) plagiarism claims. The estate of Adrian Jacobs (sponsored by his estate's trustee, my hometown hero, Paul Allen)claims that the fourth Harry Potter book, "Goblet of Fire" lifted plot elements from "The Adventures of Willy the Wizard -- No 1 Livid Land".
"Sounds pretty flimsy to me: It added that the plot of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire copied elements of the plot of Willy the Wizard, including a wizard contest, and that the Potter series borrowed the idea of wizards traveling on trains.
"Both Willy and Harry are required to work out the exact nature of the main task of the contest which they both achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers, in order to discover how to rescue human hostages imprisoned by a community of half-human, half-animal fantasy creatures," the estate statement said." (via Reuters, full article here)
Finally, the most interesting case:
The NY Times reports that JD Salinger's estate is suing Fredrik Colting, the author of the book “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.”
According to the NYTimes, "Colting says that his novel is not a sequel to 'Catcher in the Rye,' but rather 'a complex and undeniably transformative exposition about one of our nation’s most famous authors, J.D. Salinger, and his best known creation, Holden Caulfield.'"
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