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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER LOSES ROUND IN BATTLE OVER ALLEGEDLY STOLEN SONG.(Entertainment)

December 5, 1996 | Copyright

In the latest round of a legal battle that has become something of a curiosity in the entertainment world, a federal judge has denied a claim by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber that Ray Repp, an obscure American composer of liturgical music, had stolen a song from his 1969 musical, ``Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.''

Judge Shirley Kram ruled Tuesday that although there were some similarities between Lloyd Webber's song ``Close Every Door'' and Repp's 1978 composition ``Till You,'' they were not sufficient to justify Lloyd Webber's claim of copyright infringement.

``Although the songs share some musical devices,'' Kram wrote, ``such as rising arpeggios …

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