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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott
Lazypoker's point about Questions doesn't really arise as Mannfred Mann would have just been using the melody and as Schubert dies in 1828, copyright issues wouldn't have arisen. I would have hoped that he would have acknowledged its use out of politeness, though.
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i stand corrected concerning this point, mr scarrott.
but in general (not only on the classical music front) it can be said that the danger of being sued hasn't prevented quite a lot of folks to use other peoples' work without credit (and the record companies didn't mind, either) - especially in the bluesrock field: led zep with "whole lotta love" or "bring it on home", for example, or canned heat ("bullfrog blues"), but even the beatles were sued by chuck berry for a few words in "come together", george harrison with "my sweet lord" . . . it goes on and on and on.
some may have gotten away with it, others haven't - so, with that in mind it still leaves some possibilities open . . .