Well.. this is interesting..
"Songwriters are super cautious these days since plagiarism lawsuits are flying and the winner in court is usually the one you’d least suspect. One of the reasons why it’s so tough to defend a copyright lawsuit is because the court now considers a melody just a sequence of pitches, so Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin developed a program that recorded every possible melody (all 68.7 billion of them) via MIDI to a hard drive, but not for the reasons that you might think."
- from Music Industry Newsby Bobby Owsinski
Originally posted by MonkeyC on Mon 09 Mar, 2020
That is insane! I mean, it is great in a lot of ways, especially for us indie artists - but would that mean that I could take the same melody (as say, Celine Dion's Titanic song) and just rewrite the lyrics, and claim it 'my own' without getting in trouble?
Originally posted by MonkeyC on Mon 09 Mar, 2020
Yes, I've just started on that - I've been trying to write every possible combination of different words possible - I've set 1,000 monkeys onto the task with typewriters rather than a computer but all they've done is managed to write the complete works of Shakespeare!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/led-zeppelin-wins-stairway-heaven-plagiarism-case/
Well.. this is interesting..
"Songwriters are super cautious these days since plagiarism lawsuits are flying and the winner in court is usually the one you’d least suspect. One of the reasons why it’s so tough to defend a copyright lawsuit is because the court now considers a melody just a sequence of pitches, so Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin developed a program that recorded every possible melody (all 68.7 billion of them) via MIDI to a hard drive, but not for the reasons that you might think."
- from Music Industry Newsby Bobby Owsinski
Read the article..