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Thread #111841 Message #2359819
Posted By: GUEST,that bloke who's come back here
06-Jun-08 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: playing safe with melody rights ?
Subject: playing safe with melody rights ?
you write an origional song, and the melody just comes to you so automaticaly and so quickly like as if its a gift from some other unworldly state of being
[god/nature/spiritworld/matrix/Oz/cuckooland/etc/take your pick]
this melody is so good because you know it just is.
so humable and so catchy in that almost instantly recognisable kind of way.
so its bound to be a hit..
Now the point here, is that George Harrison was only one amongst many who got fingered and shafted by the mercenary copyright bloodhounds, when a similar such melodious gift was so luckily dumped in his lap.
soooo..
how to deal with it these days..
If you write a new melody in all good faith and honest integrity, but you feel insecure because its so good it must surely have been created before;
how do you go about publishing it ?
My name.. say Cheeky Harrison..
Melody rights belong to Cheeky Harrison until some other mean spirited mercenary @#&$ proves otherwise ?
tough one.. ?
and the reason is, because i just wrote that naggingly familiar hit potential melody.....