Interesting Article about a famous band borrowing music

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Sat May 17, 2014 7:54 am

I think Neil riffed on this a bit at Don Quixote's concert when asked to play stariway to heaven, but here is an interesting long article from bloomberg businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... ing#r=read


It inspired this Greg Mitchell blog post:

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/ ... arism.html



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Sat May 17, 2014 8:44 am

Interesting that the legal standard to judge by is 'does it sound similar to an ordinary lay listener'. If it goes to trial LZ are boned.


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Tue May 20, 2014 10:00 pm

Can a chord progression be copyrighted? If so, whoever came up with I IV V should build a case. It is similar. I don't think it would hold up though. Ethically, there may be a case. Legally, probably not. Although, hopefully there would be some kind of settlement.
John


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Wed May 21, 2014 5:11 pm

It was interesting to read about the other examples - often, it seemed, the artist was more interested in just getting a credit for their song, even more than the money.

I also got the impression that if this goes to court and wins or gets settled, Lou Adler, the producer ("I was Lou Adler'ed and Barry Saddler'ed") would get more money that the Randy California estate.

And don't forget the lawyers





kelemenj wrote:
Can a chord progression be copyrighted? If so, whoever came up with I IV V should build a case. It is similar. I don't think it would hold up though. Ethically, there may be a case. Legally, probably not. Although, hopefully there would be some kind of settlement.
John


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