OK, all you Australian musos out there. You'd better go through all your songs and make sure all your melodies don't have any bars that are similar to bars in any other piece of music ever composed. And while you're at it, it's probably best to go through all your lyrics and make sure no one else has ever recorded anything similar. If you do find any similarities, you'd better track down the holder of the copyright and apologise profusely for ripping off their creation. And give them money. Or you might find they sue you.
Australian writers, you'd better do the same. Go through all your books, and make sure you've never used a similar idea to any other story, or the Gods forbid, used a phrase another author has used. Withdraw these stolen works from sale, or send the originator some money as compensation.
And Australian filmmakers, and visual artists, same applies to you. If any of your work looks similar to someone elses, or you've been inspired by another artist's visual style, you'd better send them some money to acknowledge that you've ripped off their creations.
Come to think of it, any restaurant serving confit of ocean trout had better send a portion of the profits of each plate sold to Tetsuya Wakuda, seeing as he was the first person (as far as I know) who first thought of confitting ocean trout.
See, it seems, if the copyright holder of a particular piece of music can convince a judge that a piece of music you wrote has a sequence of notes that's similar to a sequence of notes in the first music owned by the copyright holder, the said copyright holder can claim a huge percentage of any money you've made from the music. Even if the context, pitch, key, and instruments used in the playing of the notes are completely different.
And even if the copyright holder gouging you had nothing do to with the creation of the piece of music in the first place.
( At least that's what the Australian Federal Court has decided. )
Australian writers, you'd better do the same. Go through all your books, and make sure you've never used a similar idea to any other story, or the Gods forbid, used a phrase another author has used. Withdraw these stolen works from sale, or send the originator some money as compensation.
And Australian filmmakers, and visual artists, same applies to you. If any of your work looks similar to someone elses, or you've been inspired by another artist's visual style, you'd better send them some money to acknowledge that you've ripped off their creations.
Come to think of it, any restaurant serving confit of ocean trout had better send a portion of the profits of each plate sold to Tetsuya Wakuda, seeing as he was the first person (as far as I know) who first thought of confitting ocean trout.
See, it seems, if the copyright holder of a particular piece of music can convince a judge that a piece of music you wrote has a sequence of notes that's similar to a sequence of notes in the first music owned by the copyright holder, the said copyright holder can claim a huge percentage of any money you've made from the music. Even if the context, pitch, key, and instruments used in the playing of the notes are completely different.
And even if the copyright holder gouging you had nothing do to with the creation of the piece of music in the first place.
( At least that's what the Australian Federal Court has decided. )
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