This case was started because when Michael Bolton made an album with his songs on it, it was some of the same lyrics. The Isley brother’s song was released in 1966 “love is a wonderful thing” and Michael Bolton’s song was released in 1991. A suit was brought against Michael Bolton by the Isley Brother’s for allegedly lifting parts from their original song of the same name in 1991 Despite Michael Bolton and the co-author of the songs argument that there was insufficient evidence supporting the jury’s findings, the district court found in favor of the Isley brothers and left the largest award in history for plagiarism in the music industry intact. The Isley Brothers were awarded 5.4 million dollars, the calculation based on sixty-six percent of past and future royalties. (Also taken into account was twenty-eight percent of the past and future royalties of the album Time. Love , and Tenderness as Love is a wonderful thing is contained album).
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