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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9233287" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>The case you cited did not dispute that Fogerty could, in principle, have plagiarized his own work, but found that he did not do so. If you sell the rights to a work to someone else, you do not retain the right to still use and profit from it (barring specific exceptions in whatever contract you signed). You would be violating copyright, which is in effect what Fogerty was sued for. The jury basically found that you can't own copyright over someone's style, just over the specific works that you purchased, and that "The Old Man Down the Road" was not close enough to "Run through the Jungle" to be considered a copyright violation.</p></blockquote><p></p>