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==Lawsuits== Following the release of the 1978 the Rutles album, [[ATV Music]], the then-owner of the publishing rights to the Beatles catalogue sued Innes for copyright infringement. Though Innes hired a musicologist to defend the originality of his songs,<ref>{{cite news|title=The spoof Beatles are back in business |first=Catlin|last=Moran |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=25 October 1996}}</ref> he settled with ATV out of court for 50% of the royalties on the 14 songs included on the album.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.neilinnes.org/articles/RutQ96.htm |first=Paul |last=du Noyer |journal=Q Magazine |date=1 December 1996 |title=The Post-Prefab Three |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141608/http://www.neilinnes.org/articles/RutQ96.htm |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref> The settlement did not include any other Rutles songs which were not on the original LP release (some of which were included in the television film, e.g., "Baby Let Me Be", "Between Us", "Blue Suede Schubert", "Get Up And Go", "Goose Step Mama", and "It's Looking Good"); Innes retained 100% royalties to these.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?page=1&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&fromrow=1&torow=25&affiliation=PRS&cae=58084467&keyID=166392&keyname=INNES%20NEIL%20JAMES&querytype=WriterID |title=Songwriter/Composer: INNES NEIL JAMES |website=Repertoire.bmi.com |access-date=2014-07-26 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On actual Rutles releases, LP, CD, etc., writing credit for all songs has always been printed as Neil Innes only.
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