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'Over The Rainbow' Composer's Estate Sues Big Tech And Labels For Alleged Piracy

Harold Arlen's son and his estate are suing Google, Apple, Amazon and scores of record labels for illegally selling and streaming his music.
A promotional poster for the 1939 film <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>." Harold Arlen's song "Over the Rainbow" for this film won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

The estate of Harold Arlen — the composer famous for such American-songbook classics as "Over the Rainbow," "Get Happy" and "It's Only A Paper Moon" — has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's biggest technology companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft in what it is calling "massive piracy operations."

Arlen's son, Sam Arlen, and the composer's estate say that they have found over

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