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From | Mike Vancha <mikevancha@sk.sympatico.ca> |
Subject | Re: No need to register copyrights. |
Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:06:15 +0000 |
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> From: bob <segarini@sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:43:10 -0400
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: No need to register copyrights.
>
> There are only 5 octaves and 12 notes...amazing someone doesn't get "ripped
> off" every 15 minutes.
> You are bound to hear similar sounding songs to your own if you write enough
> and listen to enough recorded music, but like I said...the chances of
> someone ripping you off on pupose are tiny at best, the stuff of hoary
> movies and Columbo scripts...
> He's So Fine/My Sweet Lord: A rare instance of an Artist not realizing he'd
> heard the tune before...how embarrassed do you think George was about that?
>
> bob
>
Bob,
What if Harrison wrote/discovered the song as an original another song
happened to be like that? There are only so many notes and patterns, as you
say.
Mike V.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Vancha" <mvancha@sk.sympatico.ca>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:53 AM
> Subject: No need to register copyrights.
>
>
>>
>>
>>> From: bob <segarini@sympatico.ca>
>>> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>>> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:52:16 -0400
>>> To: audities@smoe.org
>>> Subject: Re: Easiest way to copyright your music..
>>>
>>> In forty plus years of being a published songwriter I have never known
> of or
>>> experienced another writer stealing a song.
>>> Songwriters put a lot of work into what they do...the thought of
> stealing
>>> another person's work would rarely, if ever, occur to them.
>>> How many times has that actually happened? Not many...it's usually news
> when
>>> it does, and hardly anyone suing ever wins the court case.
>>> People that worry about being "ripped off", are either not songwriters,
> or
>>> have thought of stealing someone else's work themselves...otherwise, why
>>> would they even think that someone else would do it to them?
>>>
>>
>> Hey Bob,
>>
>> where did that fallacy about the likelihood of unknown writers getting
>> ripped off come from anyway? The chances are indeed very remote, it seems,
>> and usually it's the bands/songs with the greatest popularity that are
>> ripped off/borrowed from by someone just starting up.
>>
>>
>> Mike V.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Lord Granger" <glowfriend2003@yahoo.com>
>>> To: <audities@smoe.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:36 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Easiest way to copyright your music..
>>>
>>>
>>>> Arthur Bang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a friend who wants to use
>>>>> one of my songs in a video he's
>>>>> doing and I hate for too many people
>>>>> to hear these, because someone might
>>>>> take it and record it for themselves
>>>>> and then I wouldn't get credit.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Arthur, the world is FULL of songwriters just
>>>> waiting -- with fangs bared and claws out -- to rip
>>>> off your disjointed, fragmented, inconsequential song
>>>> ideas. Think of all the money, fame and cocaine other
>>>> artists will receive by stealing one of YOUR SONGS. It
>>>> happens all the time: in fact, I'm thinking of
>>>> stealing a Cliff Hillis song myself, just because
>>>> there's so much money to be made. ;)
>>>>
>>>> Come on, Arthur, what've you written, "Tommy"? "Split
>>>> Milk?" "Varying Degrees of Failure and Tunelessness"?
>>>>
>>>> I didn't think so.
>>>>
>>>> It's highly doubtful anyone will even ACKNOWLEDGE your
>>>> music, let alone 'take credit' for it. Don't be such a
>>>> pustule; put your music out there and let it stand on
>>>> its own -- or let it fall flat on its face. If you're
>>>> such an amazing writer, why worry about being ripped
>>>> off? You can always write another great song.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, try this:
>>>>
>>>> http://copyclear.com/copyright.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Reminds me of a story: I met a songwriter at a recent
>>>> local open-mic night up here on the Central Coast; I
>>>> struck up a conversation with the gal who said she'd
>>>> written some amazing songs. I asked where I could hear
>>>> her music, and she said, "Oh, no, I won't play my
>>>> music for ANYONE; someone will steal my ideas and take
>>>> credit for them."
>>>>
>>>> ROFLMAO.
>>>>
>>>> Songwriters: get a life ya'll. The industry -- and the
>>>> world, for that matter -- has rendered you obsolete.
>>>> Go learn code or something equally banal.
>>>>
>>>> The Lord has spoken.
>>>>
>>>> -LG-
>>>>
>>>> NP: The Golden Archies -- McRock
>>>>
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