was

["samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>]

  I think the Bealtles very clearly copied the Everly Bros,and Little 
Richard and Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent and Holland Dozier and 
Holland,and 
Buck Owens and Stockhausen and every thing else they liked.  But when they 
covered the Isley bros ,or the Miracles they credited the writers and paid 
the royalties.
   Oddly enough you can't copyright style or ,instrumentation,or rhythm 
,tones ,timbres, textures  or timing ,or dynamics. You can only own 
sequences of notes.