Thanks, Christopher, for that link, and to everyone else for the
excellent and extremely helpful advice I received here on this subject.
For example, I wonder if the opening 7-note guitar riff from
Lennon-McCartney's "Yer' Birthday, " used in a serious, somewhat
quodlibet-type composition (not sampled), used out of the blue to give a
birthday reference (in other words - meant to be recognizable) would
constitute plagiarism (my guess is probably) or could it be protected
by any sort of artistic license or any other such thing. Not really a
musical parody, but possibly close to one.
Raymond Horton
Louisville Orchestra
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Mar 4, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Raymond Horton wrote:
This sounds to me, already, like a dumb question, but here goes anyway:
Is there any guideline established as to how much I can quote of a
copyrighted piece of music without getting into trouble?
I know that there are guidelines for broadcast, but are there any for
compositional plagiarism? I'm guessing there are not, but hoping
there are.
Apparently not! I thought the test was a "recognisable" amount, but
recently read a bunch of court decisions that went all over the
freakin' place. And of course with sampling, ANY portion at all is
considered to be licenceable use, recognisable or not.
Columbia Law School has put up a website of music plagiarism cases
(complete with scores and some recordings).
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/song.html
Be sure to check out:
MCA Music v. Earl Wilson
Christopher
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