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Touro Law Review. 26 (1). ISSN 8756-7326. Gaines, Ginger A. (1992). "Wright v. Warner Books, Inc.: The Latest Chapter in the Second Circuit's Continuing Struggle with Fair Use and Unpublished Works". Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. 3 (1) Gudkov, Aleksei (November 2020).
Music plagiarism is the use or close imitation of another author's music while representing it as one's own original work.Plagiarism in music now occurs in two contexts—with a musical idea (that is, a melody or motif) or sampling (taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it in a different song).
Both the recorded music sector and music publishing sector have their foundations in intellectual property law and all of the major recording labels and major music publishers and many independent record labels and publishers have dedicated "business and legal affairs" departments with in-house lawyers whose role is not only to secure ...
On 8 February 2016, a court ruled that the children's song "Happy Birthday to You" was in the public domain and Warner/Chappell Music was required to pay $14 million to the song's licensees. [10] In October 2020, American humorist Tom Lehrer released his entire catalogue, dating back to the 1950s, into the public domain. [11]
[17] [18] When performing his song "Power" on Saturday Night Live, Kanye West similarly replaced a verse of the song containing profanities and criticism of the program itself ("Fuck SNL and the whole cast") with newly written lyrics. [19] Songs containing potentially objectionable double entendres or mondegreens have
[4] A review of the song by Frank Owen in Spin praised Dr. Dre's production, saying that the producer "has a remarkable talent for making noise funky, and he shows it to great effect". [5] However, Owen criticized Above the Law as lyricists, writing, "they present this hardcore life without any of the dandy charm that Big Daddy Kane or Oran ...
Following the identification of a word comes the understanding of meaning, and which meaning the word is intending in the context of the song. If a lyric is not properly set, a word might be mistaken for a different word, or be completely unidentified. Songs are constantly moving forward, so there is little time for the listener to decipher words.
Where primary and secondary sources conflict factually, the primary source should be given priority. When a case has been published in an official reporter (e.g. the United States Reports), editors should cite the version of the case that appears in the official reporter. Case citations. Case names are italicised, as in the Kelly v.