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3below Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 [quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1426095478' post='2714356'] When I first heard 'Blurred Lines' I immediately thought it was a Marvin steal from 'Got To Give..',astoundingly so, IMHO. [/quote] Agree, when I heard it in car I initially thought it was a cover - was remembering the original from memory (a long time ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 [quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1426102237' post='2714462'] ... I wonder if Prince ever took any steps regarding Sussudio, by Phil Collins - which sounds remarkably like the Purple ones 1999? [/quote] On the subject of Prince, I recall seeing an interview with James Brown where the interviewer asked Brown 'do you like Prince?'. Brown replied that he did like Prince. Then, when asked why he liked Prince, Brown replied 'Because he pays me for the samples'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 [quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1426095765' post='2714366'] A musicologist writes: [url="http://joebennett.net/2014/02/01/did-robin-thicke-steal-a-song-from-marvin-gaye/"]http://joebennett.ne...om-marvin-gaye/[/url] Essentially, despite different chords, underlying rhythm, basslines, key, vocal melody, lyrics, they sound a bit like each other and have highish pitched male vocal. The concluding sentence is interesting: "The act of putting an electric piano together with a cowbell and a 120BPM disco beat would need to have been judged a creative act in itself, making instrumentation and possibly even genre into protectable Intellectual Property. Which would have had massive implications for future creators of music". [/quote] Having read the article, I think this copyright suit was madness. It's like if Link Wray's estate suddenly sued all rock bands for stealing his idea of a distorted electric guitar and won. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think if someone takes someone to court for plagiarism and wins they should only be entitled to a certain percentage of the profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Poor old Pharrell - the Gayes are after "Happy" now, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/marvin-gayes-family-says-pharrells-happy-is-another-copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 All of which reinforces my opinion that copyright, if it's admissible at all (which I hold it is not...), should end with the holder's death, and not be transmitted as a 'value' from generation to generation. I find it hard to justify the work or effort that the inheritors furnish. It's 'money for old rope'; a 'virtual' wealth. I know, I know, it's not morals not ethics which count in this mad world. I'd abolish all that in a trice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Schoen Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Axis of Awesome hammering the point home long before this case. The lawyer of the Gaye family would have a field day if he saw this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou24d53 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Over 60 posts so far on a subject regarding plagiarism and no-one has yet mentioned Oasis or Noel Gallagher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 [quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1426204228' post='2715768'] I think if someone takes someone to court for plagiarism and wins they should only be entitled to a certain percentage of the profit. [/quote] Is that like if someone steals my property and they are found guilty then they have to return only some of what they stole? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4-string-thing Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Over 60 posts so far on a subject regarding plagiarism and no-one has yet mentioned Oasis or Noel Gallagher. Apart from me in post #21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou24d53 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Oops, I stand corrected! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 [quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1426071328' post='2713953'] I reckon there could be a couple more in the near future. Is it just me, [b]or does Noel Gallaghers latest sound a bit like Bus Stop by The Hollies[/b]? Or that James Bay thing sounds very much like Charlie Boy by The Lumineers? [/quote] [quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1426253128' post='2716178'] Over 60 posts so far on a subject regarding plagiarism and [b]no-one has yet mentioned Oasis or Noel Gallagher[/b]. [/quote] A spot of plagiarism here, maybe..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4-string-thing Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Don't worry, I'm used to not being noticed..... I play bass, after all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Wilko Johnson's biography talks about him writing the song "Paradise". I hunted it out and soon after listening to it heard (purely by coincidence) the rather obscure"Curfew" by Steve Carl and The Jags (from 1957). I remember wondering whether it was possible that, in the 1970s, Wilko could possibly have heard it or had just stumbled on a very similar riff/feel when he was writing "Paradise". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonky2 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Yes, axis say it just about right here.... Funny vid this too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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