Australian singer-songwriter Allan Caswell is alleging in a lawsuit that the band Alabama stole its chart-topping 1982 country hit, "Christmas in Dixie," from the song he penned as the theme for the 1980s Australian television soap, Prisoner. What makes the case peculiar -- besides litigation over songs created three decades ago -- is that in Caswell's new lawsuit, he isn't suing Alabama but rather his own music publisher, Sony Atv Music Publishing Australia, for failing to collect royalties from the alleged lift. Caswell and Alabama are signed to different divisions of Sony Music. The dispute is being fought at
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- 5/14/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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