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How do you mean? If I write a song that happens to have the same words, melody and chords as All About That Bass, should it be assumed I wrote it myself unless
by Joeboy 10y ago
How do you mean? If I write a song that happens to have the same words, melody and chords as All About That Bass, should it be assumed I wrote it myself unless somebody catches me red-handed transcribing the original?
- khedoros 10y agoDuring the trial, they did bring in a pianist (defense) and guitarist (plaintiff) to compare and contrast the two songs. With a test like that, if you copied lyrics, melody, and chord progressions from another song, it'd become obvious.
- Joeboy 10y agoThat test only works because it conflates similarity with copying.
- khedoros 10y ago50% similarity: likely not copying. 90% similarity would be much more arguable, and you'd have to rely on other evidence to make a decision. With 100% similarity (as in the scenario you originally outlined), it's extraordinarily unlikely that you didn't copy the original song. Even if % similarity and % copied don't have a direct mapping, there's going to be a correlation between them. It's the correlation that's important, not some mistaken idea that "similar = copied".
- Joeboy 10y agoYou and I seem to agree that at some point similarity is good evidence of copying. I was just interested to know what the "other means to demonstrate copying that are less prone to errors in human pattern-detection" are, that were proposed as an alternative above.