" No I don't. I'm just a would-be songwriter, but I stopped writing music after having done some research on music plagiarism cases. It turns out that if a song written by Alice is "substantially similar" to a song by Bob that Alice has heard even once, then Alice infringes Bob's copyright."
I think you're stretching the exceptional cases and applying it to all music. All I'm saying is that if you are true to your intent and want to create music you should go ahead and do so, and don't worry who sued who over how many similar notes copied. I can see you being paranoid if your starting point was based on some existing work. I just don't think you should tell people to stay away from making music just because of some law suite paranoia. That would make for a very horrible world indeed.
"I'd suggest staying the heck away from music unless you plan only to cover classical pieces first published before January 1, 1923."
This has to be the most stupidest comment ever made. So, anyone who wants to make music should fear the legal wraths unless they want to replicate classical pieces.
You must work for the Recording/Pulishing Industry. Or worse, you might be a laywer.
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" No I don't. I'm just a would-be songwriter, but I stopped writing music after having done some research on music plagiarism cases. It turns out that if a song written by Alice is "substantially similar" to a song by Bob that Alice has heard even once, then Alice infringes Bob's copyright."
I think you're stretching the exceptional cases and applying it to all music. All I'm saying is that if you are true to your intent and want to create music you should go ahead and do so, and don't worry who sued who over how many similar notes copied. I can see you being paranoid if your starting point was based on some existing work. I just don't think you should tell people to stay away from making music just because of some law suite paranoia. That would make for a very horrible world indeed.
Mohsen
"I'd suggest staying the heck away from music unless you plan only to cover classical pieces first published before January 1, 1923."
This has to be the most stupidest comment ever made. So, anyone who wants to make music should fear the legal wraths unless they want to replicate classical pieces.
You must work for the Recording/Pulishing Industry. Or worse, you might be a laywer.