Looks like the Democrats again cozy up to thieves, if this lawsuit's claims are accurate!
If tbis guy’s an expert how is it he isnt sure if it is five or if it is six?
Katy started out a Christian singer and wound up a Spirit Cooking baby killer. Hope she loses this case.
Rats doin’ what rats do.
Katy Perry is liberal trash!
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.
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.
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.
So many songs out there have similar sounds, chords, and music I am surprised there are not more copyright lawsuits.
I have a copyright on the word “the.”
Cha-ching!
If I copied a Lakota beat, could the drummer Sioux me?
Katy Perry: “I killed a nun”
If it takes a music Phd to tell if one songs sounds like another, it doesn’t.
Copyright means you are copying.
If you produce the same item, on your own without copying, you have not violated copyright laws.
But then, litigate and prove it.
How about John Fogerty being sued for plagiarizing himself?
Imho many Christian worship songs tend to copy pop songs from about 10 years prior...
Reminds me of the George Harrison/Pointer Sisters contretemps of the early 70s...
There are only so many notes on the scale... and even fewer sound good together...
There’s a piece of music in the movie, “Deep Blue Sea,” when the main character is racing to kill the shark in the end that sounds exactly like the main theme for the SciFi miniseries, “Children of Dune.”
Not really on topic, but related.
Rent seeker. I’m no fan of Perry but these lawsuits are simply looting operations.