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PHOTOS: CTV 2010 Olympic Anthem, I Believe, in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit, Reports Mystical Rose Productions

(As seen on Global BC News, Jan. 31, 2011. This is an important update.)

TORONTO, Ontario Canada/EWORLDWIRE/Sep. 22, 2011 - Diamond (Pete Mason) of the band Myztery, who previously worked as a Catholic priest in Vancouver, B.C., has started a legal battle of Olympic proportions. He believes substantial portions of the music and lyrics of the quadruple platinum CTV 2010 Olympic anthem, "I Believe," were reproduced or derived by Stephan Moccio and Alan Frew from his song, "Power of Love" (aka "I Believe"). Other defendants include Universal Music and CTV.

Diamond composed "I Believe" in 2008 (later re-named "Power of Love"), and a year later he gave a pre-master CD of songs, including "Power of Love," to someone in Myztery's studio to help him work on "Cyber Superstar," a Myztery album.

Diamond from the band Myztery Photo: Tom Hawkins

While in the studio, he twice suggested to Diamond that he submit "Power of Love" for the Olympic theme song because it made an excellent fit for the "Believe" theme. He approached Diamond's wife Star with the same suggestion twice. He later said he knew Frew personally.

Diamond believes that Moccio and/or Frew received a recording of "Power of Love," either directly from that studio worker or indirectly from him through another individual. About 12 days after the pre-master CD was given to the studio worker, Frew stated publicly at the Halifax Casino, "I just wrote a song for the 2010 Olympics called, 'Believe!'"

In February, 2010 CTV reporter Lisa LaFlamme asked Moccio how he wrote "I Believe." Moccio replied, "We got the master tapes." During an interview with Barry Shainbaum Frew said he wrote the lyrics and the melody to "I Believe" and worked it into Moccio's instrumental version of the song

Alain Mayrand, Masters of Music Composition, University of British Columbia, did an analysis of both songs: "I have taught Royal Conservatory music theory for over 10 years, and it is part of theory exams to compose short four-measure pieces based on given melodic material. I have never encountered two students coming up with anything remotely as similar as what we can see between these two songs."

Dr. George Elliot Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, did a comparative analysis of the lyrics: "I can say that there appear to be points of suggestive congruence between the two lyrics."

Diamond says "The world deserves to know the true origin of the song, 'I Believe,' and all that went into my lyrics 'I believe in the power of love.'" Hear "I Believe" by Myztery at http://www.myztery.net.

The case will be held at the Federal Court in Toronto, [CASE #].

For more information contact:

Pete Mason

info@myztery.net

+226-229-1801

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