Comment precedents for copyrighting "style" (Score 1) 218
I figure if Tom Waits can sucessfully sue Frito-Lay for "style ripoff" (to the tune of $2.5 million) and Southwestern Bell can be made to pull a series of TV ads because they're "dangerously close" to sounding like Lyle Lovett, then people who aim to clone Jimi, Janis, John, Jaco and the like may have a fight on their hands. As a musician, I hope they do. And any TV producers out there who are looking for another way to mediocritize the medium may have hit paydirt with this one. Love, an angry, unemplyed bassist.