On the 4th of September 2007, the Court of Appeal in Brussels reversed the 2003 ruling, based on the fact that R Kelly's earliest evidence of writing the score was August 1995, 21 months after the brothers registered their score for "If We Can Start All Over". The Court concluded that it was possible that R Kelly managed to gain access to the score, which he then later developed into the smash hit "You Are Not Alone". R Kelly continues to maintain that he never met or heard of the van Passel brothers. The Court also stated that the van Passel brothers “did not create their work merely in order to register it with SABAM and put it in a drawer, but at least informed third parties of the existence of their composition”.