Micky
Jul-19-2008, 02:47 GMT
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|  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. singer and songwriter Paul Simon sued a Japanese clockmaker for $5 million (2.5 million pounds) for copyright infringement on Friday for claiming the company used one of his songs as a composition on their clocks.
Simon´s lawyers accused clock company Rhythm Watch Co Ltd, and its U.S. subsidiary Rhythm USA of using Simon´s song ´Bridge Over Troubled Water´ on 40,000 of its clocks in the last three years without his permission.
The lawsuit called the song ´one of the best known songs throughout the world in popular music´ and cited Rhythm´s ´Grand Nostalgia Clock´ as one that plays Simon´s song without permission as well as other popular songs including ´My Way.´
´Bridge Over Troubled Water´ was the title song of Simon and Art Garfunkel´s final album together, released in 1970.
Rhythm was established in Tokyo in 1950 and has its U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. It manufactures, distributes and sells clocks in Japan, the United States, India and Hong Kong, the lawsuit said.
A license fee for using the song would have cost more than $1 million and the lawsuit estimated Rhythm had profited more than $5 million from the sale of clocks that use the song.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Michelle Nichols and Todd Eastham)
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Mickie
Jul-27-2008, 18:32 GMT
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| I´m amazed not to have seen a comment on here about this.
I personally think he did right, a bit of a cheek, if you ask me, to go making money of the back of Paul´s. I´m amazed they got away with it for so long lol
Thankfuly Paul isn´t the kind of man who sues at the drop of a hat, he only does it when there´s a good reason. |
