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Saturday, October 24, 2026
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Whose World Is It?

LOS ANGELES (CN) - In a tangled case, Betty Newsome claims she wrote and copyrighted the song, "It's a Man's World" in 1964, that James Brown infringed her rights in his hit, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," for which she sued and settled, and that now Warner Tamerlane Publishing Corp. is violating her rights in that song, which she claims Brown and his estate never had rights to assign.

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