Legal Opinion
Daboub v. Gibbons
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 12, 1995No. 94-10129PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it may also lead to jealousy when the imitator succeeds where the imitated does not. In this case, the object of imitation is a rock and roll song.
I
The appellants, members of the rock and roll band the Nightcaps, claim that the appel-lees, members of the rock and roll band ZZ Top, are copycats and stole the song Thunderbird from them. The Nightcaps allege a number of state and federal law violations based on ZZ Top’s version of Thunderbird. Before addressing these legal theories, we present a brief description of the…
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