Well, not exactly. But I had a good time when Oxford University Press, publisher of my Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, asked me to compile a Spotify playlist of songs which, at one time or another, Arnstein claimed were plagiarized from his music. The result, 15 songs spanning the period from Irving Berlin’s “A Russian Lullaby” of 1927 to Cole Porter’s “I Love Paris” of 1952, recorded by artists ranging Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, and the Andrews Sisters to Elivs Presley, Linda Ronstadt, and Diana Krall, can be found at the OUP Blog. If you haven’t had a reason to download Spotify yet, here’s the perfect excuse.
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Unfair to Genius
Unfair to Genius is an enlightening and entertaining romp through 60 tumultuous years of legal, artistic, and economic change in the American popular music industry, as seen through the lens of one of its most prolific copyright litigants and legendary outsiders, Ira B. Arnstein. "I suppose we have to take the bad with the good in our system which gives everyone their day in court," Irving Berlin once said, but "Arnstein is stretching his day into a lifetime.""Rosen paints a fascinating portrait of one of history's most fertile creative eras--the rise of Tin Pan Alley, or the 'Age of the Songwriter' as Rosen calls it--and the book brims with history relevant to today's disruptive technology climate."
-Publishers Weekly
"There's fun to be found in 'Unfair to Genius' as it leavens legal history with showbiz anecdote, and insight with amusement."
-The Wall Street Journal
Gary A. Rosen
Gary A. Rosen, a lawyer, has litigated copyright, patent, and other intellectual property cases for more than 25 years. He holds a degree in physics from Haverford College and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to federal appellate judge and award-winning legal historian A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. He and his wife Lisa, a physician, and their two children live outside Philadelphia.
