new verdict likely to alter music business?

[memyselfandus]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blurred-l ... 25727.html

at what point do we run out of ideas? it seems this sort of stuff is pushing towards a environment where copyright holders will own "music" no?

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

it's not anything new

http://www.fuse.tv/2013/07/famous-songs-sued-plagiarism

[memyselfandus]

crap just noticed someone posted this yesterday

Mod delete?

[Numanoid]

Why delete it, rather make it sticky, no ?

[jancivil]

Holders of copyrights on music DO own that music. Were you being facetious?

[herodotus]

There is an easy solution to the problem of being sued for copyright infringement: don't make derivative music. Find a musical identity of your own and cultivate it.

Problem solved.

[Numanoid]

There is an easy solution to the problem of being sued for copyright infringement: don't make derivative music. Find a musical identity of your own and cultivate it.

With only 12 notes to play with and most musicians happy with playing 4-5 chords per track, overlapping is bound to happen

[ntom]

There is an easy solution to the problem of being sued for copyright infringement: don't make derivative music. Find a musical identity of your own and cultivate it.

With only 12 notes to play with and most musicians happy with playing 4-5 chords per track, overlapping is bound to happen

4 - 5 chords per track? That's a rather positive outlook you have...but I'm pretty certain it's more around 2-4 (at least in the pop world, that is)

[Numanoid]

Being a punk rocker, you need to know 3 chords

Not two, not four, but three

[breakmixer]

There is an easy solution to the problem of being sued for copyright infringement: don't make derivative music. Find a musical identity of your own and cultivate it.

With only 12 notes to play with and most musicians happy with playing 4-5 chords per track, overlapping is bound to happen

I agree, and I also think alot of musicians are influenced by other artists, or music from certains scenes/era's and try and capture that style in their own compositions, no more 4 to the floor then?

[herodotus]

There is an easy solution to the problem of being sued for copyright infringement: don't make derivative music. Find a musical identity of your own and cultivate it.

With only 12 notes to play with and most musicians happy with playing 4-5 chords per track, overlapping is bound to happen

I agree, and I also think alot of musicians are influenced by other artists, or music from certains scenes/era's and try and capture that style in their own compositions, no more 4 to the floor then?

Well I was being snarky, so you don't have to take me too seriously. But as for the 'only twelve notes to play' part, I don't really believe that is a limiting factor. In the first place, there may be only 12 pitches classes, but there are many more actual pitches. A standard piano has over 80. And in the second place, rhythm has no such limitations. We have barely begun to scratch the surface of rhythmic possibility. Then, too, there are many instruments available in the kvr database that allow you to use scala files, some of which have as many as 36 notes to an octave.

The possibilities of modern musical tools are limitless. The limits lie elsewhere.

[Nightpolymath]

I'd be quite happy to play this 3 movement masterpiece. No notes required.

[rp314]

Back in the day, the money men decided what was plagiarism and what wasn't.





Cole Porter wrote the original but didn't sue or make a fuss most likely since Arthur Freed was the producer on both films and was very powerful at the time...

[bailees7irish]

Holders of copyrights on music DO own that music. Were you being facetious?

Think you missed the OP's point there, Jan.

[xNiMiNx]

Does this also count as a precedent for other art forms? I paint a tree, sky, and bush, and now you cant ever have a painting with a tree, sky, and bush?