To: Terabitten
You summed it up nicely. I am very pro-copyright, and I’d hate for any of my published works to get ripped off.
But this is a quotation of a fragment of melody that has come to be recognized as quintessentially Australian—it’s not a ripoff of a whole song or the melodic/harmonic structure thereof. Heck, Mozart was doing it back in the day.
I hope the “damages” are light. I really think this is a stretch of a lawsuit.
18 posted on
02/05/2010 10:56:08 AM PST by
Claud
To: Claud
I hope the “damages” are light. I really think this is a stretch of a lawsuit.Ideally, the judge will rule that damages be limited to $1.
20 posted on
02/05/2010 11:03:37 AM PST by
Terabitten
(Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
To: Claud
But this is a quotation of a fragment of melody that has come to be recognized as quintessentially Australian—it’s not a ripoff of a whole song or the melodic/harmonic structure thereof. Heck, Mozart was doing it back in the day.Hell, Jimi Hendrix quoted "Strangers in the Night" at his famous Monterey Pop Festival performance of Wild Thing (see 2:48 here). Musicians do it all the time. As long as it's not the central theme of the song, it's not only not a big deal, it's generally considered quite a compliment.
22 posted on
02/05/2010 11:10:50 AM PST by
Terabitten
(Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
To: Claud; Terabitten
bttt to both of you
Poor Colin Hay :(
32 posted on
02/05/2010 2:12:13 PM PST by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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