Comment Again, Who Owns the Music (Score 1) 772
Much has been said about so-called copyrighted music, copyrighted software, etc. BUT do you really own the music or the software?? We all know that different musicians and singers play and sing in different styles and we had come to classify those styles, like pop music, jazz, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, etc. As soon as you listen to one of those styles, you immediately know what kind of music it is. If a particular style of music appeals to an immemse number of people and you, as a musician, want a piece of the action there, you will start by listening to the most popular group and try to immitate the style they use as close as possible. So now you begin the imitation, you will listen to their songs, you will pay attention and check the kinds of musical instrument they use; the way the music is composed, etc., etc. , etc. So are you original??? Of course NOT!! If all of your music content is based upon a long chain of ideas of other before you, do you really have a right to copyright something that really didn't originally come out of your brain?? These are issues that sooner or later the courts will have to decide. who really owns music? Do you have the right to copyright something which is NOT entirely yours??