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Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs
The Most Reflective Legal Issue of Our Time
You have just become a witness in a federal plagiarism law suit against Bob Dylan.
Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.
As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS used songs and lyrics for international recording artist, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's name is credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is Dignity.
Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan, James has engaged in a multimillion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.
“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate". “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records. ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.”...."I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly -- while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to the song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song.".......Bob Dylan
James Damiano was threatened with incarceration by Judge Jerome B. Simandle for being on the internet
The following videos were illegally taken down by Web Sheriff
Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the
career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano
began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan
that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.
As the curtain
rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS used songs and lyrics
for international recording artist, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's name is
credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as
best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is
Dignity.
Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer
John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons
Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray
Vaughan, James has engaged in a multimillion dollar copyright
infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.
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"This court will accept as true, Plaintiff's allegation that Sony
represented to him that he would be credited and compensated for his
work if Dylan used it." Judge Jerome B. Simandle
Bob Dylan Refuses to Return James Damiano's Songs to Him that were produced during litigation
On June 16th 2009 the following letter was sent to Bob Dylan's Attorney Orin Snyder written by James Damiano's Attorney in the Bob Dylan Damiano Plagiarism suit "Robert Church" regarding boxes of James Damiano's songs produced to Orin Snyder during discovery
There were approximately fifteen to twenty five boxes filled with anywhere from 200 to 400 finished and unfinished songs in each box (thirty five years of writing) that were never returned
Dear Mr. Snyder:
I have one other matter. Mr. Damiano informs me that Steven Kramer (James Damiano's lead attorney) had several boxes of songs delivered to Parcher & Hayes during the discovery phase of his case against Dylan. Mr. Kramer never made copies of the documents, since I am presuming he felt pressed to comply with an overdue discovery request. Mr. Damiano informs me that he has never had all the original songs returned to his possession, even though the case is over. If you don’t mind, please explain what you can recall about Mr. Damiano’s song production. Do you still have songs unaccounted for? Can they be returned?
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