Problems with the content industry: if the company is publicly held and
they don't sue the stockholders complain. And if they complain enough
the board members and management teams can lose their jobs. Publicly
held companies and CEOs who won't stand up to the stockholders and tell
them they have better things to do than worry about short term profits
are a big part of our present day brouhaha.
As far as music goes there is nothing new under the sun. Right here I
have a copy of "A Dictionary of Musical Themes" which is a book with
over 10,000 themes in it. They are organized by the note patterns used
(we pros would prefer intervals so we didn't need to look at every
key). And there are actually pretentious people who believe you somehow
stole their song even though they never published it and it was never
heard anywhere but in their garage.
As more and more musicians have access to self publishing the value of
original music will go down. That's part of the result of the
democratization of the arts. Same with movies. Same with software too:
$1 apps.
On 12/30/2013 11:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Sometimes plagiarism can benefit both parties.
The Doors had to pay royalties to The Kinks after pinching their riff.
The Kinks’ Ray Davies: “The funniest thing was when my publisher came
to me on tour and said The Doors had used the riff for ‘All Day And
All Of The Night’ for ‘Hello, I Love You.’ I said rather than sue
them, can we just get them to own up? My publisher said, ‘They have,
that’s why we should sue them!’ (laughs) Jim Morrison admitted it,
which to me was the most important thing. The most important thing,
actually, is to take (the idea) somewhere else.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4DV-5d6a5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzM71scYw0M
