{"id":91,"date":"2007-09-12T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/news\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-09-12T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T20:34:44","slug":"you-are-not-alone-plagarized-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/you-are-not-alone-plagarized-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not Alone &#8211; Plagarized &#038; Caught!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.info\/counter572.js'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/13.jpg\" title=\"mj\" alt=\"mj\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"100\" \/>A Brussels court has ruled that Michael Jackson&#8217;s 1995 hit &#8220;You are not alone&#8221; is largely similar to a song penned by Belgian twins two years previously, local media reported Tuesday.<!--more-->All the authorial rights of the Jackson number one hit, written by Robert Kelly, alias US singer-songwriter R. 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