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Topic History of: Blurred Lines Lawsuit Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Tony Dawkins wrote:
I bet Mozart and Beethoven never had this problem; then again, the PRS didn't exist before 1914!
Certainly if you look at opera, the composers were always looking to 'improve' on existing music and stories. Mozart was an artistic magpie, like most great musicians are, forever revising older compositions and plays. The difference, I guess, is down to how well something is borrowed. Is it used instead of something being created, or does it serve as the inspiration for something new? Bowie using My Way for Life on Mars, I think that's an interesting creative process. Personally I think the problem with Blurred Lines is that it doesn't use GTGIU as a means to create something else, it just hangs things on it like hats on a hat stand. It's lazy and unimaginative.
JK2006
Yes interesting - my suspicion is that the decision will either be reversed or the amount cut down on appeal.
K
Blurred Lines verdict 'doesn't set a new precedent and shouldn't stifle creativity'
A bit difficult to call that one at this time IMO but it does make for interesting reading.
Tony Dawkins wrote: I think the best advice I can give is to suggest that artists write and record material which is original, instead of piggy-backing off the sound-and-feel zeitgeist created by a particular group, and filching some of the lyrics in th process.
I bet Mozart and Beethoven never had this problem; then again, the PRS didn't exist before 1914!
Pretty much every form of music is copied/influenced by another and this goes for Mozart & Beethoven too. There must have been an original way back down the line but it was probably long before "recording" of music, be it audible or written, was invented.
You just have to listen to early Beatles to realise they were being influenced by Elvis who in turn was influenced by black artists. Rock & Roll evolved from Blue's and the Blue's is largely influenced by Celtic folk music played in a pentatonic scale.
Howard Goodall had a fantastic series on the BBC called, "Story Of Music", I believe it's available in it's entirety on Youtube, well worth the watch IMO (if you haven't seen it JK I thoroughly recommend it).
In fact I've just found this, another series by Howard which I'm now going to bookmark and watch. The first 50 seconds says it all really.
JK2006
No Honey - no deliberate connection (actually the melody of Wilde About Boys was way before the Devinyls - it used to be called I May BeYoung) though I've always felt Everyone's Gone to the Moon owed a lot, unintentionally, to Two Old Ladies Got Stuck In The Lavatory!
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