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Are their samples and grooves cleared? If not, it's stealing.
John
It wont be that simple. I suspect that it will come down to a direct comparison of the alleged stolen material and the alleged derivative.
Nashville writers do not live in a vacuum. They are influenced by everything that they ever heard. Everything in their head has an antecedent. Do they list those antecedents and give credit to original writers? Hardly ever?
Check out this video. Boney M's "Ma Baker" compared to Gaga's "Poker face." From what I have read, Lady Gaga adamantly denies that this was anything more than a complete coincidence.
Derivative influences are not going to be actionable, whether created by organisms or machines...that were created by organisms.
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