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Thread #164602 Message #3940763
Posted By: GUEST,Knockroe
01-Aug-18 - 04:48 AM
Thread Name: Bob Dylan: Nobel lecture plagiarism?
Subject: RE: Bob Dylan: Nobel lecture plagiarism?
So boring, yet again, criticising Bob on plagiarism. Even the great Liam Clancy mockingly once said "Little Bobby Dylan and his instant **** copyrighting machine". Now, Liam mostly only performed truly wonderful interpretations of other peoples creations.
Has poetry and art not always been about interpretation or recycling of what went before for present times? Besides his amazing well-known body of work, Dylan has written more original lyrics and melodies in largely unheard bootlegs than most artists have produced as their major works. Love C-flat's colours analogy above ...