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Thread #2316   Message #1938675
Posted By: danensis
16-Jan-07 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Why Paddy isn't at work today
Subject: RE: Origins: Why Paddy isn't at work today
If the song is based on Gerard Hoffnung's address to the Oxford Union in 1959 how can Pat Cooksey lay claim to it, or doesn't copyright work the same way as patents and "prior art"?

John