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To: LindyBill who wrote (91645)	12/20/2004 1:18:11 PM
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This is for all you music lovers. Back that copyright up By Joshua Claybourn A 48-page opinion that Chief Judge Carolyn Dineen King issued by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday addressed a dispute concerning the popular rap song Back That Azz Up. An issue in the case is whether the lyrics to the song "Back That Azz Up" are substantially similar to the lyrics of the song "Back That Ass Up." Here's more on the case published in The Village Voice. You can watch Juvenile's "Back That Thang Up" (the edited for TV version) here at this link and you can watch a 30-second clip from the explicit original version by clicking here (RealPlayer required). The Fifth Circuit found it unnecessary to reach the question whether the phrase "back that ass up" is incapable of receiving copyright protection because "the phrase is not original and because the merger doctrine precludes extending protection to a phrase that is necessary to describe a particular thing--in this case, a dance move." intheagora.com