Musicologist Backs Up Copyright Infringement Claim Against Katy Perry...

Billboard ^ | 7/20/19 | Chris Eggertsen

[SoFloFreeper]

Katy was a major player for Hitlery in 2016. Her song "Roar" was used in a major closing-days tv ad for the Pantsuit Queen.

Looks like the Democrats again cozy up to thieves, if this lawsuit's claims are accurate!

[BenLurkin]

If tbis guy’s an expert how is it he isnt sure if it is five or if it is six?

[TigerClaws]

Katy started out a Christian singer and wound up a Spirit Cooking baby killer. Hope she loses this case.

[jmaroneps37]

Rats doin’ what rats do.

[max americana]

Exactly. She’s a raving moonbat leftard and a follower of the evil one...

[Fiddlstix]

Katy Perry is liberal trash!

[Will88]

NYU music professor and musicologist Lawrence Ferrara -- illustrating that two much-older songs, “Jolly Old St. Nicholas” and “Merrily We Roll Along,” feature nearly-identical instrumental sequences.

When I hear about one musician suing another for allegedly copying their music, I often wonder who the one suing copied from. As long as music's been around, I doubt there are very many totally unique and original sounds and rhythms produced by anyone. Everything is derivative to some extent.

There probably are some instances of blatant copying, but when I've listened to some of the music supposedly copied, there is often little obvious similarity between the two being compared.

[Fungi]

You are way too kind.

[Fiddlstix]

Yes. But,..I am trying to avoid being banned from FR

[HamiltonJay]

https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I

[jz638]

Notwithstanding the politics of the performers, the two songs have similar beats, but they aren’t identical note progressions and not the same tones. Very close rhythms, but used to very different effect.

I’ve heard many parody songs use close analogs of the original and avoid copyright claims, but I don’t know where the legal lines are drawn for sampling.

I’d think the plaintiff’s claims rely heavily on showing opportunity to steal the beat and intent, not so much the coincidental note progressions and tempo, and the article made it sound like the defense was being pretty effective in poking holes in that this far.

[Swordmaker]

This is ridiculous. The plaintiffs are suing claiming that Perry and her collaborators have infringed an underlying beat from a 2008 Christian rap piece’s eight bars for her 2012 hit . . . You cannot copyright a beat. . . I don’t care that Perry is a moonbat. The lawsuit should be tossed or artists would be suing at the drop of a top hat.

[Captain Peter Blood]

So many songs out there have similar sounds, chords, and music I am surprised there are not more copyright lawsuits.

[cuban leaf]

...copied the underlying beat...

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BS. I suppose every drum machine that lays down a type of beat it copying someone’s beat.

This is stupid.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have a copyright on the word “the.”

Cha-ching!

[TheNext]

You cannot copyright a beat. . . I don’t care that Perry is a moonbat. The lawsuit should be tossed or artists would be suing at the drop of a top hat.

I just copied your words. Sue me.

[Will88]

Lol, that video is pretty relevant to this discussion, four chords used in a large number of pop songs. I read and listened to some of the evidence in the case where the Marvin Gaye heirs sued the writers of the song Blurred Lines, and that was about rhythm sequences and the rhythm instruments used. The songs actually sounded very different to me.

These law suits seem to be about some underlying rhythm in songs where the melodies, or tunes, sound very different.

[chajin]

If I copied a Lakota beat, could the drummer Sioux me?

[minnesota_bound]

Katy Perry: “I killed a nun”

[minnesota_bound]

Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I