HTTP:: Paul Anka Says Michael Jackson Stole This Is It Song
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,†a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard†by Safire, and that’s because it was practically the same song, as music icon Paul Anka has stepped forward to claim, as E! Online can confirm. The truth about the “new†Michael Jackson song is that it’s actually a track dating 20 years ago that was stolen by the singer from Anka’s studio. Anka and Jackson co-wrote the original and then recorded the vocals for it for what was Anka’s duets album “Walk a Fine Line,†it has emerged. Michael Jackson later returned to the studio and took the tapes, which were just recently used by the MJ Estate to make the new song, “This Is It,†without even crediting Anka as co-writer and clearly in violation of his copyright. Understandably, the music icon imm!
ediately alerted the Estate and Sony about the infringement, threatening to pursue legal action if the parties continued to ignore him. The Estate eventually agreed to offer him 50% of the publishing rights, along with an official apology for using his song without permission...
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