Good artists copy; great artists steal. I of course stole that quote because lets be honest, Im pretty great. I find that I could go on and on about plagiarism, because even though I loathe the practise, I feel its essential human behaviour: its efficient and expedient. From a conditional standpoint, its the smart thing to do: achieve the greatest amount of result with the smallest possible amount of effort. Thats not to say I wont punish you if you do this on my watch, however. The music-industry has this wonderful blanket-excuse; theres a limited amount of chords. While that may be true, and while its certainly true that our range of hearing is in itself very limited, theres a significant difference between similarity in songs and blatantly copying a riff, a series of chords, the melody and/or the lyrics to a song. This is as much true for music as it is for games, for books, for traditional art or basically for anything you could claim as your own. I once linked to a youtube-clip on the Amen Break, one of the most plagiarised break-beats in the history of recorded music. Im not going to link it again, just look it up if youre interested. Its an 18-minute clip that lists the progression from theft to public domain, and its a pretty interesting bit of information that might benefit you as intellectual proprietor and/or intellectual thief. Instead, I feel I should play you out. Youve stuck with me for this long-winded post and many more, and so you must be rewarded. Today, Ive selected an arrangement of tracks: a beloved dirge by Dutch band Blöf, a completely dissimilar track from German band Jupiter Jones, a mewling lovesong by Dutch band Van Dik Hout and finally, a morbid insight in the human condition by classy American rockers, the Butthole Surfers. Enjoy.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:22:11 +0000
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