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CASES
1960-1969List of Cases
| Year | Country | Case Name | Court | Complaining Work | Defending Work | Complaining Author | Defending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | US | Walters v. Shari Music Publishing | S.D.N.Y. | Iron Bar | Jamaica Farewell | Lionel Walters | Erving Burgie |
| 1963 | UK | Francis Day & Hunter v. Bron | Ch. App. | In a Little Spanish Town | Why | Mabel Wayne | Peter de Angelis |
| 1964 | US | Irving Berlin et al. v. E.C. Publications | 2d Cir. | A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody | Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady | Irving Berlin | Frank Jacobs and Larry Siegel |
| 1964 | US | Nom Music, Inc. V. Kaslin | S.D.N.Y. | A Thousand Miles Away | Daddy's Home | James Sheppard and William Miller | James Sheppard and William Miller |
| 1965 | US | Life Music v. Broadcast Music | S.D.N.Y. | SUPERCALAFAJALISTICK ESPEEALADOJUS | SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC EXPIALIDOCIOUS | Patricia Smith and Don Fenton | Robert Sherman |
| 1965 | US | Nordstrom v. R.C.A. | D.Colo. | Mizpah or Shalom | Shalom | Frank Nordstrom | Jerry Herman |
| 1967 | US | Packson v. Jobete | E.D. Mich. | I'm Afraid | Baby Love | Lorenzo Pack, Harper Evans | Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier |
| 1967 | DE | In re Geman Collecting Society GEMA | BGH [Federal Court of Justice] | Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss | GEMA / Franz Josef Breuer | ||
| 1969 | US | Leo Feist v. Apollo Records | S.D.N.Y. | Toot, Toot, Tootsie | Toot, Toot, Tootsie | Gus Kahn et al. | Gene Sayet & Sidney Feldman |
| 1970 | DE | Bote & Bock Musik v. Melodie der Welt GmbH & Co KG | BGH [Federal Court of Justice] | O schöne Jugendtage | Tanze mit mir in den Morgen (Mitternachtstango) | Wilhelm Kienzl | Gerhard Wendland |
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