Bob Dylan: Borrower or thief?

i thought of this thread today when i was listening to Blind Willie McTell's "Death Cell Blues" and recognized the verses from Willie Dixon's "Third Degree."

I first listened to McTell a couple years back when I heard Dylan's "Willie McTell," which has the same tune as "St. James Infirmary Blues."

Anyway, did David Johansen give Dylan an "arrangement" credit on his Harry Smiths version of "Delia," which was Dylan's combination of McTell's "Delia" and Reverend Gary Davis' "All the Friends I Ever Had Are Gone" from World Gone Wrong?

to sum up: thieves, all of 'em.

Re "Honky Tonk Women": Hear Ike Turner's 1970 "Takin' Back My Name," which borrows several licks from the record.

Again, this is a little off teh intent of the original thread, but I think still is germain to the discussion. I believe that Jogn Lee Hooker sued ZZ Top for La Grange as a ripoff of (I think) Boogie Chillun... If I recall the recall the challenge correctly (and plese, blues people, kick my ass if I'm wrong) it was based on the used of the boogie riff (...I'm mean, c'mon... his lawyers were reachin' on that one) and that they used the singature Hooker catch phrase ("how how how how") I beleive that the case got tossed. I suspect that the ZZ Top guys (who are fuckin geezers themselves and been aroudn long enough to know how bad people have been boned, prob'ly themselves included at some point) were simply doing a boogie tune and thought it would be cool to quote the Hooker phrase (a common practice in jazz) So, the question is at what point does a quote become a ripoff? Leave that to the lawyers, maybe...