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Plagiarism and Men At Work
Posted by masked tortilla on 6 February 2010 - 5:17pm.
Interesting to read in yesterday's Guardian about the Men At Work plagiarism case (details here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/men-at-work-song-theft.)
Seems that if an instrumentalist who plays on your song lifts a note or two from something else in their playing, you the songwriter can be found guilty of plagiarism.
What - then - would the courts make of this, I wonder?
Trouble No More (credited to McKinley Morganfield): http://open.spotify.com/track/5GuLcaIqn4zMAgMQAtKoZB
Someday Baby (credited to Bob Dylan):
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M'lud...
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This is a fun game...
If you're going to tackle..
..plagiarism and the blues, you're opening up a real Pandoras Box.
Muddy Waters himself mostly recycled old Delta songs by people like Charlie Patton, Son House and RJ, which they probably recycled themselves.
The Blues runs on this stuff.
And how about this...
Compare and contrast:
Bob Dylan
Dominic Behan
And
Multi-millionaires whine about paying for the NHS:
Presumably they wanted Jam today:
Prince Philip...you see what I did there....
and
Tell you what...
...Noel Gallagher's erse must be making buttons.
And Genesis
will be regretting that 5 second burst of 'Black Night' at the end of Los Endos on Seconds Out.
I'd take this to court...