Copyright Law: Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs

No artist can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Thirty two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.

Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Charlie Christian, Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan , James has engaged in a half a billion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.

As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS / Sony international recording artist, Bob Dylan not only used songs and lyrics written by James Damiano but also solicited Mr. Damiano's materials for a period of over ten years and eleven months.

As per Judicial filings Bob Dylan's name is credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as the best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is Dignity.

Bob Dylan fooled the world for decades claiming to have written many of the melodies to his hit songs when in fact most of the melodies were from preexisting songs that he did not write. In a last nail in the coffin scenario James Damiano's movie "Eleven Years" draws the straw that breaks the camel’s back, rivets Bob Dylan to his secret past of plagiarism and rewrites musical history"......Virtue Films

Since the law suit Dylan has admitted to plagiarizing a great number of his songs including "Blowin In The Wind", "Hard Rain", and "The Times They Are A Changin". In a L.A. Times interview Dylan stated
“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate.” “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records.

‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.” "I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly, while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to the song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song.".......Bob Dylan

Katheryn Baker an Associated Press Reporter testified that Bob Dylan stated to her in a recorded interview that he (Bob Dylan) did not have enough songs that he wanted to put on an album. This was in reference to the same time frame that people in Dylan's entourage were calling James Damiano for songs. All of these statements are judicially uncontested by Dylan. All of these statements were videotaped in depositions .

After twenty two years, fifty hours of video taped depositions, ten thousand pages, fifteen and a half million dollars, Dylan nor Sony has never filed a counter, slander or libel suit against Damiano.
In 1979 James Damiano met Mikie Harris. Mikie introduced James to the CBS Records now acquired by Sony. James eventually auditioned for Mr. Hammond with a harmonica and an acoustic guitar.

Judge Simandle ruled "Plaintiff has demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendants had access to his work"

Judge Simandle also ruled "This court will accept as true, Plaintiff's allegation that Sony represented to him that he would be credited and compensated for his work if Dylan used it."

Bob Dylan 's Stealing of James Damiano 's Songs


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Copyright Law: Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs