According to allegations, Johnny Depp took poem lyrics from a prisoner.
Michael Lee Jackson, the creator of intellectual property law, and Bruce Jackson, the inventor of music, have both made this revelation.
Michael Lee Jackson, an attorney who specialises in intellectual property law, and Bruce Jackson, the father of music, made this startling contrast and made it known to the world.
The allegedly plagiarized piece is Hobo Ben, which appeared, “word for word” and “almost verbatim” in Johnny Depp and Jack Beck’s spoken-word song.
The song’s lines were uttered in1964 by Slim Wilson, a convicted murderer and robber.
Bruce started by showcasing the similarities, side-by-side and told Rolling Stone, “The only two lines I could find in the whole piece that [Depp and Beck] contributed are ‘Big time [expletive] and ‘Bust it down to my level’.
Other information was taken from Slims’ performance in my book. I haven’t ever come across something like this. This is the first time in my 50 years of publishing that someone has simply plagiarised something and given it their own name.
They do not accurately reflect the true authorship of those lyrics, his son acknowledged in addition to providing some more insight.
I simply don’t believe that Johnny Depp or anybody else could have come up with those words without getting nearly entirely inspiration from my father’s album and/or book, where they were used.
Could Johnny Depp do time in prison for theft?
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