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Plagiarism in music

In our time of music, songs and other authorship, a rapid increase in creative copyright material is inevitable. And, as a consequence, there are many disputes and litigations in various areas of plagiarism, which in turn represents a wide range of material for these disputes.

Let's take a single song as an example, where a certain part of, say, a verse resembles another song written earlier. In my opinion, one should not rush to draw certain conclusions and hang labels. The essence of plagiarism is not notes, and not a sequence that looks like something, but a certain "untwisted" material, which is some kind of material or intellectual creative value that brings some benefit to the beneficiary. In simple terms, if something was taken from you and profited from it, you have all the prerequisites for a trial. Since the use of a plagiarism platform covers an integral part of the legal and economic sphere ...

In plagiarism forms, careful analysis is required, where experience of composing in various directions, knowledge and experience "first hand" is desirable ... In this area of creative expertise, theoretical skills alone may not be enough ...

(Vasiliev M.Yu.)

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