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In Reply to: RE: Lawyer who sued Led Zepplin for plagiarism... posted by Ned on July 03, 2016 at 18:56:24
The Plaintiff from the band Spirit had arguably the best and freshest album of 1968; not nobodies. There are definite similarities between the Spirit song and Stairway. Just visit You Tube for a long video that explores the similarities of chord structures.
That said, there's links of musical structure from Bach to Brahms, etc. Or how about all the White Boys who unashamedly play Albert King and Buddy Guy? And don't even mention Tin Pan Alley!
As Abraham Lincoln put it, "it's all bullshit!"
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OK, I listened to it ad there is alot of similarity. Alot.
But does that give them rights to bunch of the money someone subsequently made on it ? First of all their tune was really undeveloped in compare. I see now that i was not in public domain yet, so again where were these people who wanted to sue back then.
And another thing, Led Zepplin is based in England and it is possible that US copyright laws simply did not apply. If not, even though the Constitution does not allow for rights of foreigners (a point of contenting recently actually but not back then) it does not allow for retroactive laws. So if the copyright laws did not cover this then, they cannot, by law, cover it now.
Now it is rant time. these record company moguls and a few others are claiming rights to old music that was in public domain. Who the fuck do they think they are ? Don't you think that if you write a song, play it and sing it and even get rich off of it that eventually that is coming to an end and you have to write another song ? Or do you think that writing one song should get you lifelong royalties, and for the next three or four generations of your family ? Do you think it is right for your greatgreat grandkids to get a check from the RIAA because you wrote a song and sung it ?
And they don't. The RIAA people got that through congress and the record companies get that money. Do you think that is right ? Diana Ross and the Supremes died in fucking poverty, while some suit made all kinds of money. When I downloaded music, don't tell me I stole from the artist, I stole from the goniffs who stole from the artists and I am damn proud of it.
Bottom line, beam me up Scotty. There is some intelligent life here but you don't want anything to do with them. They are nasty MFs. Get me the hell outta here.
Not one.
"A lot". Not "alot".
"Alot" is not a word.
:)
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