Copyright LOL

Discussion in 'The Thunderdome' started by kidbourbon, Mar 19, 2015.

  1. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

  2. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    HAHAH, did you hear the daughter's comments after the verdict?

    *all while crying, mind you*

    "I feel free...free from Thicke's chains."

    w.

    t.

    f.
     
  3. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    GREAT article. Thanks for sharing. Everyone stands on the shoulders of the previous generation.
     
  4. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

    And there may be infinitely many ways to arrange a song, but unless a song is one of those "wow, I've never heard anything that sounds like that before" songs*, it's gonna be in the ballpark of another song. This is a really terrible precedent, and I hope Thicke appeals.


    *It's really cool when you hear a totally unique song -- bombs over baghdad in 2001 comes to mind....I'd never heard anything that sounded like that...my mind was blown -- but it's a ridiculously high bar, is not articulable as a standard, and even if it were, would be a ridiculous way to think about copyright.
     
  5. droski

    droski Traffic Criminal

    whhaaaaa

    "the jury was not presented with the two recordings in question to determine the extent to which they’re similar. "
     
  6. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

  7. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    For the record, I don't think they're even that similar. No more similar than two songs that come out in the same year can be.
     
  8. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    It is a completely ludicrous lawsuit. I imagine Gaye's daughter is simply trying to milk her poor dead daddy for every plug nickel she can get. The copyright laws in the USA are too strong anyway. It takes forever (and seems to constantly get pushed out, ad infinitum) for anything to go into the public domain.
     
  9. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    My name is mud is like that for me.
     
  10. A-Smith

    A-Smith Chieftain

    Completely disagree with this decision. Melody is the real intellectual property not a sound, vibe, etc.

    Sam Smith, on the other hand, owes Tom Petty almost every cent he's ever made.
     
  11. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

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  12. zero-sum

    zero-sum New Member

    So I kissed him upside the cranium w/ an aluminum baseball bat
     
  13. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    Wow.


    "Theirs goes ding ding ding digga ding ding. Mine goes ding ding ding digga ding ding, tch. They're not the same. That tch makes them different."

    -Rob Van Winkle
     
  14. JayVols

    JayVols Walleye Catchin' Moderator

    Sailing on the Seas of Cheese was boss back in the day.

    I'm a Jerry Was a Race Car driver fan.
     
  15. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    eh, the first 2 lines of that melodic idea are the same, but the rest aren't. it's a different song. there's only so many ways you can put notes together. this just gets into a lot of murky ground
     
  16. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    That is thing: how many ways can you put a limited of notes together that is pleasing to the ear? It isn't infinite for sure, and the "pleasing" part limits things quite a bit.
     
  17. snoball5278

    snoball5278 Contributor

    that was great theatre.
     
  18. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    I like The Toys Go Winding Down
     
  19. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

    well not anymore. Now that Petty is listed as co-writer.
     
  20. kidbourbon

    kidbourbon Well-Known Member

    It has to be infinite.

    If it isn't infinite, then there will be a point when there will be no more songs to write. Which is silly.
     

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