02-28-2020, 11:54 AM
beagledave wrote: ...thus eliminating (again..in theory) copyright lawsuits.
It potentially affects copyright lawsuits based on the appropriation of a single measure following an 8-note pattern.
But really, it's BS. Copyright law is not supposed to protect simple sequences of notes because there's a limited number of ways to put them together to perform any given work, making them utilitarian. Judgments in favor of plaintiffs when such appropriations occur, are "bad." (Decided incorrectly.) Unfortunately, if you have enough money and get lucky with a dumb or prejudiced judge, you can buy a bad judgment pretty easily and it's both expensive to fight and to appeal.
And this stunt probably wouldn't have any influence like the most famous case of note-appropriation, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."
http://performingsongwriter.com/george-h...weet-lord/
If you scroll down in the next link, you'll see mention that the expert witness for Harrison argued that the motifs were in the public domain. The judge opted to disregard it.
https://blogs.law.gwu.edu/mcir/case/brig...ngs-music/