Plagiarism, the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Without fail, you'd see at least one plagiarism accusation on the news in the music industry every month. WITHOUT FAIL.
It started off buyable, then it got suspicious and now it gets irritating. It seems to me that these artistes filing these "copyright infringements" or "plagiarism accusations" are simply doing it for the sake of money or jealousy.
Money -
What's the next best thing instead of robbing a bank to get instant cash? We'll just file copyright infringements and plagiarism accusations, that way, 50000 grand legally BOOM in our account. All hail copyright infringements ABUSE. This IS abuse, and what better alternative could I emphasise more on this. Hell ait? Hell! You're filing "copyright infringement" for something that doesn't even belong to you and it may have even existed before your dad even produced your sperm or...?
...Jealousy -
Take Viva La Vida for example, for hitting number 1 on Billboards Hot 100. Then comes Joe Satriani filing his complain that Viva La Vide incorporated "substantial original portions" of his instrumental track "If I Could Fly". I admire your works Joe but this? Come on, I'd give you the opportunity of doubt, in any case, jealous Viva La Vida peaked on charts but not your track?
Then comes in the lamest, most idiotic excuse I've ever heard for Plagiarism Accusations. "Melody and Tonal copyright". HELLO?! So you wrote that song, so you composed that tune from these notes and keys. I'm about to use those notes and keys for my song. Would it be copyright?! So if say there were 1bil of songs available now in the industry, in fact there really is about a bil of songs in the industry, and they used up these tones. Am I supposed to use some key or tone that is inaudible to the human ear?? What? +800db?! Am I not to compose something of that same tone or key with your song? If that was so, most songs in the industry would already be infringing copyrights. By that, only over a hundred songs are audible as their tones are "genuine" and "distinct". COMPLETE BULL!
So I used the notes G, A, D, E for my song, and I composed my song in the key of F#. So come in, file your lawsuit against me. I'd welcome you over for afternoon coffee breaks, then I'd soak you in hot boiling coffee, then play my "not so genuine" song to you namely "As you slowly die" while you actually slowly die!
