mr dave

You mean like when people wanted to sue the Red Hot Chili Peppers because the chorus to Dani California was the same chord structure as Tom Petty's Last Dance With Mary Jane? Pretty sure that only calmed down when Petty himself told people to get over it.

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Howard the Duck

yeah, i mean, you might as well extend that to unknown obscure acts just starting out

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starrynight

I never got that whole Chiffons / George Harrison case, sound to me like two completely different songs.

Ultimately it's all part of this 'owning' culture we live in where anything can be trademarked (even a short phrase), America has really popularised it all I think and it's one of the worst things to come from there. Creativity comes from sharing and building on those who went before, the greatest classical composers would have said that. Music becomes so connected to business that it is treated like it is something which is trademarked,marketed and sold, rather than something which isn't exclusive but is shared thing (like all art). But with the ploriferation of styles of music around the world I think the contradictions become obvious.

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