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There's a cynical saying among traditional songwriters: Change a word, get a third. In other words, they give a song to some established star, who makes trivi
by AlbertCory 4y ago
There's a cynical saying among traditional songwriters:
Change a word, get a third.
In other words, they give a song to some established star, who makes trivial changes and then claims partial songwriting credit.
Is that fair? I don't know. Publishing royalties are so massive that you have to expect people to try to get in on them. Robbie Robertson is notorious for claiming all the songwriting credits for The Band's songs. Was that fair? I don't know that, either.
- Dalewyn 4y ago"You made this?" "..." "I made this."
- thdespou 4y agoAt this point I think chatGPT should be making those charlatans claiming credits for a comma obsolete.
- PeterisP 4y agoWell, they should be free to use the earlier version without these changes, if they are trivial and not worth it.
- AlbertCory 4y agowho's "they"?
- jerrre 4y agoThe problem is how to to decide whether the change was trivial, or the change was the thing that made a 100x difference in success.