i did a song called 'sorethumbthrob' about 2 years ago as monkeydisco, totally ripped off silverstein's guitar lead and got away with it...

haha

theres a lot of songs out there with the same bassline.

i am just facinated by bass though.

my songs have no melody. agg.

That should depend on how original the bass line is right?

Also this case if it is a case, will lose.

i quite often just find myself using someone elses bassline, but basslines dont matter do they?

edit: grammah myself

I don't think Larrikin Music is a major record company, though.

It wasn't the best example, but you get the idea.

If you had taken the whole melody, or even just several phrases from the melody, then no matter what the bpm, 'groove', or whatever else was, I'd think "whoa, that's totally ripping off Radix".

Imaginary Friend isn't a very well-known folk song though, and Radix is still alive, so it's pretty different.

is that really plagiarism (the whole use or close imitation)?

A personal example, I recently wrote a track called 'OutBrk' which used a couple of leads based on radix's 'imaginary friend', if I had literally copied every single bassline, chord, lead and drum pattern from that track in a section, that would be plagiarism. As it was the track is at a different bpm, groove, and the lead is surrounded by completely different notes. Someone could say 'hey that sounds kinda like...' but not 'whoa that's totally ripping off xxxx'.

I know of many songs that have 'little bits' taken (read: inspired) by other songs, and there's only so many scales you can use in pop music, eventually it's all going to get rehashed.

Pretty much every one of their chart songs has elements ripped from other songs.  It pisses me off every time they play a new one on the radio I can hear stuff from other songs.  At first I thought it was a fluke, but as it's happened so many times, they are clearly just ripping little bits from other songs and hoping nobody notices (which so far no one has).

Competition : Have a listen and see how many you can hear

Let this be a lesson for all of you. Never EVER have a flautist in your band. You WILL eventually be sued.

THEMS FIGHTING WORDS, BOY.

Yeah, this whole thing is bullshit.

The original tune is a Welsh folk song. The original copyright was for the lyrics and not the music AFAIK.

Yet more fuel for the "why major record companies don't deserve customers" fire.

Bastards got what they deserved. (not)

What did they allegedly steal?