Lawrence Mossford wrote:
Author will not sue Dylan over album lyrics
By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 10/07/2003)
A Japanese author whose work has apparently appeared in Bob Dylan's
latest
album has declared himself flattered and has no plans to sue.
About a dozen passages on the 2001 Dylan album, Love and Theft,
appear to
echo sentences in Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga.
Mr Saga, a 62-year-old doctor in the Tsuchiura, north of Tokyo,
said
yesterday he was "ecstatic" that his work had been read
and used.
He said: "It's exciting to imagine my words have inspired
him." One Saga
line reads: "My old man would sit there like a feudal
lord". The Dylan lyric
is: "My old man, he's like some feudal lord".
Some Japanese media contrasted his Japanese modesty with America's notoriously litigious culture. The similarities between Dylan's
lyrics and
Saga's book were spotted by an American working as an English
teacher in
Japan.
The book, translated into English in 1991, tells the life story of
a
Japanese gangster.
Interesting, so this was actually definitely settled way back when.
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