Originally Posted by Marc Barnette

For me, it's just not that big a concern, because I don't sit around and listen to what's on the radio and then do that. I have clients that come in that might be influenced and like certain songs or artists, and I'll listen to some of that for reference, but it generally just gets us in the target area, and the similarities end there. Many of things that are on the radio, I have no interest in copying at all, but that is just me. For my two cents, the more you utilize other people's work, the more problems you invite in being accepted. Mostly it would be taking some of that into a legitimate publisher who would simply say "Ahh, we've already got a ton of that. What else you got?"

To each his own.
MAB


My thoughts exactly. What thrill is there in creating something that's already been done. I'm sure out of my 5,000 tracks that there will be some similarities found, but that's only by coincidence. They're still my creations. I didn’t set out to plagiarize. The ideas came from me – so if coincidentally, someone else may have had similar ideas, big deal. With only 12 half-tones (and their octaves) to work with, what the hell do you expect.

Some of these writers with lawsuits, seem to think they own every note they write down.

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Stop analyzing; just compose the damn thing!
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