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1. [slightly OT] Musical citation (what is allowed?)<BR>
(Julien Claassen)<BR>
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Hi Julien :)<BR>
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I didn't read the whole digest, anyway, as others mentioned before, it's a cloudy situation.<BR>
I guess you don't sample, but e.g. plays a sequence.<BR>
1. Is there any copyright on the scale?<BR>
2. Is anybody able to hear the quoted sequence?<BR>
3. Is the one you'll quote a moneymaker or a musician? Yes, Metallica will sue you, Musicians don't care, they feel flattered.<BR>
4. Do you make money with this quote?<BR>
5. By random several people have the same idea at the same time, maybe "random" is morphogenetic.<BR>
6. By random we very often unintended quote or simply have got the same idea.<BR>
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DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!<BR>
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7. What is the situation if you modify the quote? E.g. a different phrasing? Or if the phrasing is important, exchange blue-notes and regular scale notes. At what point the quote will become a new composition?<BR>
8. Blame guys like Eric Clapton for stealing simple phrases, IIRC one of "his" songs of that kind is "man overboard".<BR>
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IMO its ok to quote, what ever the law says. It only became shameful, if the whole song is a qouote and praised as a self-made opus.<BR>
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2 Cents,<BR>
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Ralf</FONT>
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