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Fact #8917

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A copyright court hearing enters its second day in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Federal judge Michael Igoe hears the case in which music publishers Shapiro-Bernstein are claiming that their song Yancey Special has been infringed by the 1949 hit song Long Gone by Sonny Thompson on Miracle Records. At the close of the day the hearing ends and the judge undertakes to give his decision in thirty days time.