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Guilty, much? Have you already apologized to Shamrock for your own "honest mistake" of plagiarizing their riff?

And, it's "throwing salt on the wound" and "adding insult to Injury."

Or are we going to take this issue "with a grain of salt?"

For one, I'm already aware that Jim apologized, but a tad too late. An apology is terrific, but, that's acknowledging the FACT that he PLAGIARIZED Nelson AFTER adamantly claiming the song to be his own, and all references to that were retroactively removed by Jim/his company from his website. In fact, my initial reaction was, "maybe he bought the rights from Nelson."

Now, Lynman, is an apology really enough these days? Is "compensating the offended party" really enough, when one is caught?

I had respect for Jim Brickman, he's one of the best pianists I actually had the opportunity to listen to aside from Bruce Hornsby, but hey, it's an honest mistake everyone WILL make.

Also, you need not worry. I can assure you no one will plagiarize you. You haven't a good one in your banks to plagiarize...