> And what if I do try to paraphrase something from memory, from a few sources, and happen to spit out a very similar sentence from memory. Am I breaking the la

> And what if I do try to paraphrase something from memory, from a few sources, and happen to spit out a very similar sentence from memory. Am I breaking the law? If you're doing this for a commercial purpose, yes. Recording artists have been successfully sued for accidentally reusing a melody they claim to not remember ever hearing, provided it really does sound sufficiently similar to the original.