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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: King Crimson and X-rated film sountracks
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 19:13:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 19:13:36 1985
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Reply-To: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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>>    Speaking of X-rated movies...about two years ago, I was watching the
>> film EMMANUELLE and noticed that all the really heavy-duty sex scenes had
>> as the musical background an EXACT COPY of King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues
>> in Aspic, part II" from the LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC album!
>> 
>>     Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?  I'm POSITIVE that Fripp et.
>> al are not aware of this rather blatant plagiarism; nowhere in the film's
>> credits were any of Crimson's personnel mentioned... [*ROB* ROSEN]

	According to my father the film editor, this is a common problem in
porno-type films.  Apparently, since very few people will admit to having 
gone to see a porno film, it rarely comes to the attention of the people
holding the copyright on a piece of music that said copyright has been
violated.

jon
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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon		(Thanks to CU CS department)