> From: bob > Reply-To: audities@smoe.org > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:15:45 -0400 > To: audities@smoe.org > Subject: Re: No need to register copyrights. > > Completely possible. > When I was 13 I wrote a song fragment that I sang out loud to and from > school for months. That was 1958...six years later I heard the exact phrase > and the exact notes that I had written six years earlier. It could not have > been anything other than random happenstance. There is no other > explaination. > The phrase? "Listen...do..wa..ooh...Do You Want To know A > Secret...do..wa..ooh"...you probably know who the band was. And that is > absolutely true. > I believe it, Bob. How many musical note patterns are there that sound good together out of the 12 notes? Not too too many. I guess it's just a matter of how they are combined. Mike V. > bob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Vancha" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: No need to register copyrights. > > >> >> >>> From: bob >>> 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" >>> To: >>> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:53 AM >>> Subject: No need to register copyrights. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: bob >>>>> 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" >>>>> To: >>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> __________________________________ >>>>>> Do you Yahoo!? >>>>>> Yahoo! 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