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One of the first recording royalty disputes is settled when Judge Carpenter decides that jazz clarinet player Alcide Nunez is not entitled to copyright on the recording of Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band because, "No living human being could listen to that result on the phonograph and discover anything musical in it." Nunez had claimed that he co-wrote the song before leaving the group.
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