When you concentrate all your energy on something, you draw it to your spirit--draw it closer to you and into your creative universe. This is how people become successful at achieving the things they are most obsessed with. The things they put a lot of time and energy into. Prince focuses so much of his energy on legal matters and the workings of the law; he's going to become very successful at being sued.
I'm not saying these cases will be successful at suing him, it's just that people are beginning to hate his legal bullying so much that they will be thinking of any way possible to sue him. I understand him wanting to protect his music but I don't think these lawyers he's hiring are really thinking of his best interest in the long run. These are just quick fixes for his anger at having a lack of control over his music; which should no longer exist since he's out of the WB contract. But it still exists as residual of that situation. He's still responding to the industry like he's trapped in that contract. He's not responding like a free man. He's constantly on the defensive and as a result of that is pushing away his own artistic freedom and the avenues that allow him this. There are so many other less corrosive things he can do to protect his music without destroying his legacy. ~Belinda On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > > <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAHfPlIYT3DVGu9i/GxSUABnCgAAAEAAAAF97c0llqJFPs4Py8Fkq > [email protected]> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > thread-index: AclzQCiIuSXahWkvQwiwq7S59xBs6A== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Language: en-us > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/signed by demime 1.01d > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain > Sender: [email protected] > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Prince Rebuffed In Italian Plagiarism Case > > http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/prince-rebuffed-in-italian-plagiarism-ca > se-1003929092.story > January 09, 2009 03:39 PM ET > > Mark Worden, Rome > An Italian court has ruled that Prince's 1994 hit "The Most Beautiful Girl > in the World" was plagiarized from a song by two Italian writers. However, > it could take several years for a definitive ruling in the case, which has > already dragged on since the 1990s. > > According to a sentence handed down by the Court of Appeal in Rome, the > song > borrowed heavily from "Takin' Me to Paradise," written by Bruno Bergonzi > and > Michele Vicino. > > Under the ruling, Prince must stop distributing the song on Italian > territory. He also faces having to pay the royalties he has so far > accumulated to Bergonzi and Vicino and their publishers, but only if a > final > hearing confirms the Italian songwriting duo was plagiarized. > > "Our song was first released in 1983, at the height of the Italian dance > boom and it appeared on assorted compilations that were distributed > internationally," Bergonzi tells Billboard.com. "When we first heard > Prince's song we immediately took action, but this case has been dragging > on > for 15 years and it isn't over yet, such is the slowness of the Italian > legal system. We only decided to go public with our story now." > > The ruling is in fact an appeal against the original sentence, which, in > 2003, rejected Bergonzi and Vicino's claim. This latest ruling was actually > made in December 2007 and registered on Feb. 11 last year, but Bergonzi and > Vicino have only now spoken out. > > For a sentence to become definitive in Italy, a "third degree" ruling is > necessary and this could take several more years. > > When the case began, publishing for both sides in Italy was handled by > Warner/Chappell, in the form of Fortissimo (on behalf of Controversy Music) > for Prince, and Chappell for Bergonzi and Vicino. However, Controversy > Music > and Prince are now represented by Universal Music Publishing. > > "We are waiting to see the outcome of the third and final sentence," > Universal Music Publishing Italy managing director Claudio Buja tells > Billboard.com. "We're wary of making a comment at this stage, but I can say > that plagiarism cases are invariably delicate and difficult." > > Spokespeople for Prince and Warner/Chappell Italy could not be reached for > comment. > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewPowerNewYork Mailing List website: Www.NPNY.Org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? Email: majord...@*remove*lists.panix.com, in body place npny ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions/Help?: visio...@*remove*panix.com
