Jessie J Sued for Plagiarising Melody

[aleos]

oh! And remember the Satriani coldplay debacle. I wrote a little paper on that.
I think Satriani had his head so far up his ass on that one.
wow

[ski]

I find this fascinating, ski! How can that be possible? How can something be too "in the spirit" to warrant paranoia over lawsuits, while having distinct melody and harmony? "in the spirit" sounds just too subjective with a big fat slipery slope coming out its ass. That's wild. I wonder if that musicologist was bit over the top in that call.

He very well could have made a bad call, but from what I remember from the tale, he said that there was legal precedent for this. I'm no lawyer, so I dunno.

Always in flux.

Good one!

Yeah, maybe there's "the law" and then there's "paranoia". Who knows, who knows...

[Lord Lav]

I can hear the similarity but I think it's all a bit ridiculous. But then maybe I'm biased I've used a lot of samples in my music. I don't think it's a blatant copy or anything, but then I'm sure Jessie J's team can afford it at the end of the day

[My4ECGI7p19Y]

No one owns our notes, we have only like 12 pitch names, we vary them in rhythm, melody, harmonics, and dynamics. Every melody has already been made, we just happen to copy them not on purpose, but because we all have all the melodies inculcated in our musical mind since we were born. lyrics can be plagiarised, but not melodies. you are an idiot for claiming a chord progression, tune, etc is your own property.