How would that apply to harmonic structures? Is that seven notes of
a melody, seven notes of chordal structures, or what? What about
distinctive rhythms? :) Seems like much too grey an area to even
dabble with.
--Brennon
On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:53 AM, G GRIFFITHS wrote:
I heard an interview with Stephen Schwartz on Radio 3's 'Stage and
Screen' a
few weeks ago, talking about Wicked.
If you take the first seven notes of 'Unlimited, my future is...'
from 'The
Wizard and I', they are in fact the same notes as 'Somewhere Over The
Rainbow', but with a different rhythm.
Apparently, so he said, you are only allowed seven notes before
copyright
kicks in.
No idea if he is correct.
Gary Griffiths
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Raymond Horton wrote:
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.
[snip]
My guess would be that such a short quotation would be alright
[disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and this is just a guess] since it in no
way would diminish the merchantability of the original, would in no
way
be mistaken for the original.
I think the only way you could parody that song would be to change the
lyrics so it didn't refer to a birthday but to a deathday or a wedding
day or some other sort of special day (even something like "They say
it's a Tuesday, We're gonna have a dull time." would be a parody) but
simply throwing in a snippet of the song (unless it were possibly
in the
midst of an arrangement of The Funeral March) wouldn't, in my
decidedly
non-legally-trained mind, constitute any legal parody.
--
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