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Re: plagiarism (still off-topic)



In his 1976 decision, Judge Richard Owen, of the federal district court in
Manhattan, agreed with you as to "unconscious", but not as to "accident", and
certainly not as to "trivial and incidental". He wrote:
The principal reason (I believe) that Judge Owen has written such fine
opinions on music copyright (this is only one of many) is that he is
himself an accomplished composer and knows all about the (music) creative
process first hand. Most unfortunately, he is probably the only senior
member of the judiciary with this insight.