Johnny Depp Fights With Folklorist Over 'Hobo' Poetry
By Andrew Karpan ( October 21, 2022, 10:17 PM EDT) -- Johnny Depp asked a New York federal court on Friday to find that the song he cut earlier this year with blues guitarist Jeff Beck did not infringe an 86-year-old folklorist and SUNY Buffalo professor's copyrights in a poem called "Hobo Ben," claiming the professor had no ownership rights to the poem and is engaging in "an old-fashioned shakedown."...
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