I am passionate in the arena of singing, fact of the matter being that I have numerous compositions basically uploaded for viewing in Youtube while some of them can be heard in my blog.
Naive as my thinking, all the way believing that once you & I made some song composition, in all certainty, the one who originally crafted the lyrics of such song is the utter owner.
That, no one can make similar song out close imitation of another author's music while representing it as one's own original work.
The song been uploaded in social media in my @facebook account on August 2015.
But all the while, I heard somebody hugely popular singing with musical idea, that is, a melody or motif emanates from my own composition.
Further to share that, aforementioned song emits a sound recording similar to my song composition yet reusing the same in a different song.
"What da ya think"
If the guy should not mean it, well and good dude!
Truth be told that nothing for this time really comes from rags to sound composition anymore where technology helps man's life easier.
And to say it, music is no exception at all!
Highly likely, the first action bands will undertake about when they form their influences to include typically singing other people's music.
Bluntly to indicate that, they have no genre to share.
In my end, and allow me to point it as my heart bleeds really but keeping the same is the smartest thing to do as of the moment.
Best to share that my genre which I am passionate about manifest man's uniqueness.
Least to say it here that, I performed in my love for music in a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of my life story, which mean the past, present and the future one.
As the situation of my indigenous composition “What do ya think” has been similarly rendered which the melody and the sound emits in twin effects as mine earlier uploaded in social media.
As society conformed by saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is not applicable to my situation.
You know why? Because the one who allegedly imitate endowed with popularity beyond compare.
Is my allegation impressed with merit?
Utterly, I will declare affirmatively!
According to United States copyright law, absence of confession, musician to that effect who accuses others of stealing as to composition must prove “access”.
Simply put, thee alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song. Moreover, the same emits with similarity with unique musical components.
Worth to share this, which I got it in my readings that, even a music categorize as public domain which to say not protected by copyright, the same may still be plagiarism to copy a portion of it absence of attribution.
My naive allegation is humbly supported with proximate antecedent evidence resulted upon my imaginative search for the answer of WHY is this so?
Let it be known, and in the utter result of my research that a software exists long time ago (2006), that automatically generates music in the style of another composer, using musical analysis of their works.
I just want to share this with so you'll know that Computer Model Musical Creativity by David Cope, who wrote aforementioned software system called Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
This software is capable of analyzing and generalizing from existing music by a human composer to generate novel musical compositions in the same style.
EMI's output is convincing enough to persuade human listeners that its music is human-generated to a high level of competence.
For this reason, Cope's work has been said to not produce original music.
A different approach is been followed by Melomics, a technology focused on teaching computers the rules of music composition, not the works of previous composers.
Above-named technology has opened the way to truly creative computer-composers, like Iamus and Melomics109.
The records produced (Iamus' album and 0music) are in the computer's own style, so they cannot be considered a pastiche or plagiarism of previous works.
According to Theodor Adorno's highly controversial view, popular music in general employs extensive plagiarism: variety in the musical material occurs in details whereas genuinely original musical content tends to be sparse when compared to classical or art music.
Contradicting this claim is classical music critic Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, who pointed out that many composers used material from previous composers, giving an example of "John Williams all but lifted the core idea of his soundtrack score from the Scherzo of Erich Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp Minor, written 25 years earlier."
So What has to Be Done?
I have to make a recording back home and register all my compositions at the United States Copyright Office, 101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20559-6000
To conclude, I share this story of mine so that others similarly situated will be given an aura of information which the same can of use to their advantage. So that to avoid heart bleeds a bit....
"What da ya think"
Dante M. Santiago
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