The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95328   Message #1853112
Posted By: Genie
07-Oct-06 - 10:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: How derivative is too derivative?
Subject: RE: Origins: How derivative is too derivative?
IMO, who cares if your song sounds like the style of someone else, unless you've unwittingly copied their whole tune or some big chunks of lyrics. Songwriters don't have a copyright on their style. And even if your tune or lyrics are very "derivative," heck half the blues songs I've ever heard seem to have exactly the same tune and I could say similar things about bluegrass, honky-tonk country, etc.   And lyrics seem to travel from song to song very easily within the "folk music" genre.