7 Songs That 'Rip Off' Other Tunes

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  • čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
  • Almost all songs are inspired, at least in part, by those which have come before them. However, sometimes a song bares such a likeness to its influences that it veers dangerously into the realms of plagiarism. Today I look at seven such songs that, to varying degrees, 'rip off' other songs.
    Also, I forgot to title on screen that the version of ‘Bad Guy’ used at 1:29 is by Seth Everman. You can view the full cover here: • how to create billie e... 🌝
    Sources:
    Statement from Warner Chapel in regards to Lana Del Rey: www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
    Tom Petty on The Strokes: www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
    Interview clips with George Harrison (1976): • Video
    FabFourArchivist look at 'My Sweet Lord' lawsuit: • George Harrison’s $1.6...
    Billie & Finneas discuss 'Bad Guy': • Billie Eilish and Finn...
    Vanilla Ice claiming they're "not the same": • vanilla ice-it's not t...
    Vanilla Ice explaining that he went 5x platinum: • Vanilla Ice Explains S...
    Interview with Roger Taylor: • Roger Taylor on Vanill...
    Gap Band and Trinidad James added to 'Uptown Funk' songwriting credit: www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
    Ronson sued by Zapp over 'Uptown Funk': pitchfork.com/news/mark-ronso...
    George Harrison interview with Bob Harris: • George Harrison on the...
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    Timecodes:
    0:00 Introduction
    0:18 Billie Eilish VS. The Doors
    2:17 Vanilla Ice VS. Queen
    5:53 Lana Del Rey VS. Radiohead
    8:10 The Strokes VS. Tom Petty
    9:16 George Harrison VS. "He's So Fine"
    11:28 Bruno Mars VS. all funk music!

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  • @tomfilippo5024
    @tomfilippo5024 Před 4 lety +13747

    Vanilla ice explaining how it's different by adding one extra note made me lose brain cells

  • @spectrum9631
    @spectrum9631 Před 3 lety +2974

    Paul McCartney had once explained how he thought of it as a compliment when his music was copied, because that meant they couldn't think of anything better.

    • @APokeInTheEye
      @APokeInTheEye Před 3 lety +46

      Good point 😅

    • @bmp2791
      @bmp2791 Před 3 lety +187

      You can say that when you are an iconic musician and most of your songs are well known. It's harder when you are hardly earning any money off your music and somebody big steals it to make bigger money you will ever earn and won't credit you.

    • @ghost_pictures
      @ghost_pictures Před 3 lety +4

      I thought it was gonna be nice like "Great minds think alike" I was wrong lol

    • @n-extrafries-surprise
      @n-extrafries-surprise Před 3 lety +32

      @@bmp2791 sad that this is pretty common even outside the music industry. Take some business companies for example, people get a raise or promotion from stealing others ideas while the other party earns nothing.

    • @powersliding
      @powersliding Před 3 lety +2

      imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

  • @sonyasummers7942
    @sonyasummers7942 Před 3 lety +766

    the fact ICE couldn't defend his own argument without laughing at how ridiculous he sounded

    • @greggrozdanis5737
      @greggrozdanis5737 Před 3 lety +20

      Ya, but in his defence like the video said, what he was doing was pretty much the norm in rap

    • @jebby16
      @jebby16 Před 3 lety +9

      That laugh is known as Duper's Delight.

    • @nahblue
      @nahblue Před 2 lety +2

      Copyright is too strong anyway, great artists steal.

    • @frankdux5693
      @frankdux5693 Před 2 lety +7

      Its different. Has an extra ding.

    • @briancannon3987
      @briancannon3987 Před 2 lety +1

      It was worth it tho. Would you do it?

  • @chandlersun3877
    @chandlersun3877 Před 3 lety +198

    Although Vanilla Ice’s “cause I added one note so it’s different” statement is hilarious, he is right about publishers only sue a song when it’s extremely successful and famous.

    • @chumuheha
      @chumuheha Před rokem

      Vanilla Ice may be a douche, but he's much smarter than he lets on.

  • @RIPCityBeav
    @RIPCityBeav Před 4 lety +3873

    Probably the only time ever that someone strengthens their point by stating, "It's like Vanilla Ice said".

    • @averyellis
      @averyellis Před 4 lety +62

      every time! it was first: haha vanilla ice is gonna speak and second: huh, he made a really good point.

    • @averyellis
      @averyellis Před 4 lety +61

      lemme clarify and say he made good points about the business side. the shit he said about ice ice baby was bs and he knew it.

    • @FrictionFive
      @FrictionFive Před 4 lety +26

      Yeah it was strangely satisfying to hear Vanilla Ice validated for the first time in world history.

    • @gizzy2403
      @gizzy2403 Před 4 lety +3

      I heard hes actually doing well fronting a Punk/Thrash Rock band on East Coast. @ least b4 th Country shut down anyway

    • @mollynuttall2915
      @mollynuttall2915 Před 4 lety +4

      averyellis stole from Queen

  • @simonegentili4571
    @simonegentili4571 Před 3 lety +2030

    I'm a simple man.
    If I see Jim Morrison on a thumbnail, I just click

    • @iamgroot6965
      @iamgroot6965 Před 3 lety +72

      I see that you're a man of taste 👍

    • @calebdickerson2003
      @calebdickerson2003 Před 3 lety +64

      @@iamgroot6965 Agreed, The Doors are legendary

    • @ziggycat7504
      @ziggycat7504 Před 3 lety +11

      perfect clickbait!

    • @simonegentili4571
      @simonegentili4571 Před 3 lety +21

      @@ziggycat7504 it's not clickbait if he actually talked about him

    • @thedys70
      @thedys70 Před 3 lety +28

      Jim Morrison will always be The Man

  • @AleAT
    @AleAT Před 3 lety +691

    "he's a white rapper from florida" is the definition of throwing shade without technically throwing shade, gotta love Roger

    • @joshuabaker5990
      @joshuabaker5990 Před 3 lety +5

      @Ryan Powell yes

    • @hpvamp246
      @hpvamp246 Před 3 lety +7

      @Ryan Powell I think he was just stating it because it is an unusual thing that you wouldn’t expect. Most of the famous hip hop rappers were not white at the time and he is from Florida, somewhere you wouldn’t expect a rapper. You would more likely expect rappers from NY, LA, Detroit and not Florida which most people see as a place for retirement.

    • @MrThankman360
      @MrThankman360 Před 2 lety +4

      @Frank Lopez Well, you gotta realize. This was before Eminem. Eminem changed everything. Not only did Em become the best selling rap artist (and one of the best selling musicians period) of all time, he changed the rap game forever. Shady isn’t only popular in America, or even western nations, but worldwide.

    • @joshuataylor3550
      @joshuataylor3550 Před 2 lety +2

      He' saying he's not authentic/original anyway, e.g. what should we have expected.

    • @ajgerbi
      @ajgerbi Před 2 lety

      Joshua Taylor : White being paired with in originality is racist and ignorant. White American culture is so mainstreams and has been for so long that it isn’t easily distinguished from other developed cultures, but it doesn’t make all white people unoriginal.

  • @pineycolada3075
    @pineycolada3075 Před 3 lety +304

    “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” - T S Eliot
    There’s a difference between plagiarism and transfiguration that seems to be forgotten all too often.

  • @AntjedePantje
    @AntjedePantje Před 4 lety +3259

    I love how Tom Petty is actually the complete opposite of petty

    • @vinniesmyyth334
      @vinniesmyyth334 Před 4 lety +53

      @@Lloyd-Franklin i wouldnt blame the artist, the labels are the ones who own their music, theyre the ones moneygrabbing

    • @djmarz7123
      @djmarz7123 Před 4 lety +36

      @VinnieSmyyth I don't think that's what Lloyd meant. I think it was more of an "artist being the opposite of their last name" thing.

    • @ixlnxs
      @ixlnxs Před 4 lety +9

      He's almost like A Boy Named Sue.

    • @pabloapostar7275
      @pabloapostar7275 Před 4 lety +8

      Probably helped that the rip-off is bland compared to what Petty composed.

    • @perhapsxarb7226
      @perhapsxarb7226 Před 4 lety +4

      @@Lloyd-Franklin Cilla Black's real name was Cilla White, but a journalist got it mixed up and she decided to keep it

  • @chadphillips497
    @chadphillips497 Před 3 lety +1335

    Why does vanilla ice look like a character from lazy town

  • @isitdoneyet9878
    @isitdoneyet9878 Před 3 lety +297

    I wrote a guitar riff that was so unique and different to me at the time. I then heard this exact riff in a song at a Spanish restaurant I later worked at. There was no way this song could have influenced my own, because there was no way I would have heard it previously. I had never listened to Spanish pop music before.
    The moral of the story is be careful when using the term rip-off. It could simply be a coincidence. I've experienced this first hand.

    • @MM-MLT
      @MM-MLT Před 2 lety +29

      Yea but that Spanish pop could have gotten it from somewhere. Music is always interchanging between cultures and society.

    • @7Volkan6
      @7Volkan6 Před 2 lety +19

      There only are 8 tones in a scale (if we don't include accidentals). That meanst there is a limit to how many melodies can be written. For example melody 1= 11111; melody 2=11112; ......; melody 12143=12143. which btw is the beginning of happy birthday (c, d, c, f, e).
      I firmly believe that if we had software into which we could input all the melodies ever written, we would see that the majority of the melodies in songs aren't "original" and had been stumbled upon by someone else.

    • @bruce_daddy
      @bruce_daddy Před 2 lety +3

      @@7Volkan6 i wonder if Mary had a little lamb and London Bridge using the same notes was intentional

    • @DavidNorthMusic
      @DavidNorthMusic Před 2 lety +7

      I started writing a song recently which accidentally turned into Dear Prudence. I decided to start again.

    • @vgcreviews8277
      @vgcreviews8277 Před 2 lety +2

      @@7Volkan6 to an extent yes, but I think part of it is because of how simple music is. If you go back to the early 70s, you can listen to a track called "Child in TIme" by Deep Purple, you will see that they likely had very few problems when it comes to being sued for copyright. The intro is borrowed from another song, which I think had been okayed, and there is a two second bit on the organ that sounds like "Flight of the Bumblebee", but even then, not close enough to be a copyright infringement in my mind. When you write music like that, you are far less likely to copy other works except for people claiming small bits might sound like small bits of their songs. Compare that to a typical rap songs that will play over two chords with a 3 note melody, you are more likely to take someone else's work, even if accidentally. And when it comes to Uptown Funk, I think there is another thing worth mentioning. A genre will typically die out when it has been figured out. Not always, because sometimes someone just does something so different that is succesful and others copy it, but a lot of the time, a genre dies when a style's original sounds becomes harder and harder to find. Van Halen was part of the generation that brought back rock after a few years of a down period because they sounded unlike anything else, and suddenly, all the bands started sounding like Van Halen. Nirvana popularised a whole genre because what they sounded like was "uncharted territory". Funk was never super mainstream I think, but it had it's share of attention 60s-80s, before it started dividing into sub groups that strayed further and further from the original sound. Going back to that style might give you a hit because people forget that sound (or are too young to be familiar with it), but that style died out because it became harder and harder to be creative in it without stepping in other musician's toes, and if you make a song in that style, your song is going to sound like everything else from that time, and some of them might be able to make a case for infringement

  • @DeidreL9
    @DeidreL9 Před 3 lety +307

    Tom Petty was such a gentleman. Bless his soul, he was a legend.

    • @InstantGiblets
      @InstantGiblets Před 3 lety +4

      Legends never die. So I would say Petty is a legend. 😁

    • @DeidreL9
      @DeidreL9 Před 3 lety +6

      @@InstantGiblets absolutely. He was so much fun too. Just the kind of guy you love. 🤗

    • @joshuakosch6475
      @joshuakosch6475 Před 3 lety +1

      he was a tweaker who died of his addiction.

    • @JudeCooper
      @JudeCooper Před 2 lety +1

      Back in the 80s Tom Petty's record label wanted to raise the album price listing on Petty's new release. At the time all new releases were listed at $8.98. MCA wanted to increase the price level to $9.98 like they had with Steely Dan's Gaucho. Petty protested by telling MCA he was planning to call his new album Eight Ninety Eight. MCA responded by not raising the price. I guess Petty's "I Won't Back Down" was an anthem to him label .

    • @bluegrip3007
      @bluegrip3007 Před 2 lety +9

      @@joshuakosch6475 actually he didn’t die from his addiction he kicked all drugs in the 90s you are one very ignorant individual

  • @kaia3935
    @kaia3935 Před 4 lety +3827

    “a white rapper from florida with a funny haircut”-roger taylor HAHAHAH

  • @alexandrosgoulas
    @alexandrosgoulas Před 4 lety +1428

    Even Vanilla Ice himself was laughing as he explained the "difference"

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 Před 4 lety +49

      It didn't even SOUND LIKE a change,but merely a bad edit,😛

    • @jasonbossardt9453
      @jasonbossardt9453 Před 4 lety +37

      He did laugh, because he knows he stole the sample. But he is right. If it had only sold 10,000 copies, then nobody would have given a shit getting their slice of 10k.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 Před 4 lety +6

      @@jasonbossardt9453 For real he IS right. No one would sue if it only sold a few copies. But ,"Ice,Ice baby" still sucks though. Pet rocks sold millions of "copies" to, But that doesn't mean they are "art".

    •  Před 4 lety +4

      James Slick The thing is that Ice Ice Baby would have gotten the same success even if they had another sample.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 Před 4 lety +1

      @ And THAT is why I stopped giving a 🐀's ass about music after about 1985 or so.

  • @TheOneKidInTheCorner
    @TheOneKidInTheCorner Před 3 lety +304

    "he's a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut"

  • @ganeshapsychedelicrock4027
    @ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 Před 2 lety +137

    I think, with only 7 root notes in the whole musical universe, it's pretty remarkable that every song doesn't sound the same.

    • @rootsgrassusa
      @rootsgrassusa Před 2 lety +19

      7 in each key, 12 notes in western music but the point remains. some of these copyright lawsuits were absolutely absurd. how can u sue someone over 3 chords on guitar and similar drums?

    • @ganeshapsychedelicrock4027
      @ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 Před 2 lety +4

      @@rootsgrassusa Yep, all desiged to feed the "Fat Cats" Ahha, more than likely, does anyone know why we play in 440hz instead of 432hz?

    • @DarkWorldQ8
      @DarkWorldQ8 Před rokem +2

      @@ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 because most modern music are based on classical music, classical music splits the frequencies that makes the musical notes into 12 notes with equal spaces between them, that is to make songwriting easier and to allow other musicians to play with each other without sounding off. For example, a song in C major can be played in D major easily, especially if the singer prefers this key or they want to change the feeling of the song.
      You should listen to some Arabic and Turkish music. Some Arabs would use microtones and quartertones, some would intentionally take a regular scale such as the C major scale, and sharpen or flatten a note slightly and intentionally to make it sound different.

    • @ranica47
      @ranica47 Před rokem +1

      12 notes

    • @salty_3k506
      @salty_3k506 Před rokem

      ​@@ganeshapsychedelicrock4027 the frequency ratio between notes stays the same across keys so you can change keys which is important because you could start on any root note so every key should sound good

  • @jonathanalternate1522
    @jonathanalternate1522 Před 4 lety +1286

    "What Vanilla Ice is trying to explain here..."
    I don't know why, but that part really cracked me up

    • @IsomerMashups
      @IsomerMashups Před 3 lety +18

      But the thing is that even if he's wrong, he communicated his thought process well enough. So, like... did it need to be reiterated?

    • @aki5764
      @aki5764 Před 3 lety +26

      @@IsomerMashups He was probably explaining so that people who don't know about music or the music industry would have a clearer picture about what Vanilla Ice was saying. "What Vanilla Ice is trying to say" is probably just ironically funny, and wasn't meant in a derogatory way to begin with. I still think it's funny though xD

    • @bleb2771
      @bleb2771 Před 3 lety +7

      He is speaking the language of *_R A P_*

    • @saraa136
      @saraa136 Před 3 lety +4

      He is “trying”

    • @DianaHerberg
      @DianaHerberg Před 3 lety +3

      It made me crack up too... like not only can he not write his own riff or give credit where it is due, but he can't even clearly explain why he believes he got "caught"

  • @TheDreamerCola
    @TheDreamerCola Před 3 lety +1074

    About Freddie's reaction to Ice Ice Baby, Peter Freestone wrote: "When he first heard it, Freddie just listened to the start and thought it was Under Pressure being played on the radio again. He carried on eating his breakfast and suddenly stopped, frowning. I thought there was a problem with his food but he said ‘no’. He started listening intently and couldn’t believe his ears. He was smiling when he said that he couldn’t believe what he was hearing…. a blatant rip-off. He got hold of Jim Beach, who was already on the case and left it at that, always remembering that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

    • @michaelmiller7160
      @michaelmiller7160 Před 3 lety +13

      My Sweet Lord may be a rip off but they just sound so different. 1.6M .. how much change did George have on him? Come on that was one of the last good songs he wrote. But not sure why he was so worried ..... he had millions more and he was about the spiritual world not material. .haha

    • @nejraissocool
      @nejraissocool Před 2 lety +25

      @@michaelmiller7160 cause that was his work. Regardless of how much he had, that was still something that he worked hard on and had every right to protect his work

    • @davidmsirois
      @davidmsirois Před 2 lety

      @ghost mall this comment deserves everything 😂

    • @libradawg9
      @libradawg9 Před 2 lety +8

      @@michaelmiller7160 No, that's wrong. They're the exact same song besides the bg singers placement. Now where we agree is that it doesn't mean he ripped it off. He very well could've met and collaborated with someone who also worked with the 50s group. Enough time lapsed, and it's extremely plausible that George didn't know or like that song. Many things come into play here.

    • @ScarletVoodoo
      @ScarletVoodoo Před 2 lety

      @ghost mall Asking the real questions! 😂

  • @Kwolfx
    @Kwolfx Před 2 lety +42

    My favorite music lawsuit was when John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing his own music. Fantasy Records owned the rights to "Run Through the Jungle." They (meaning company President Saul Zaentz) sued Fogerty, claiming his song "The Old Man Down the Road" was a rip off of the older CCR song.
    Zaentz had been called a thief by Fogerty. The songwriter had written a song called "Zanz Can't Dance (But He'll Steal Your Money)," so when someone pointed out to Zaentz that "The Old Man Down the Road" sounded a lot like "Better Run Through the Jungle" he saw this as an opportunity to get back at Fogerty, and so he sued him for copyright infringement. Fogerty won the lawsuit by bringing a guitar into court and demonstrating the differences between the two songs to the jury.

    • @joeroscoe3708
      @joeroscoe3708 Před 2 lety +5

      I also heard the judge made a statement along the lines of "You can't sue Fogarty for sounding too much like Fogarty."

    • @yourcommentisntfunnyv2709
      @yourcommentisntfunnyv2709 Před 2 lety

      Lmao

    • @hellradiolives
      @hellradiolives Před rokem

      The song was changed to "Vanz Can't Dance" before release.

  • @anarchicpancake2840
    @anarchicpancake2840 Před 3 lety +390

    "it's literally plants vs zombies"
    ah yes, a woman of culture

    • @kevink4539
      @kevink4539 Před 2 lety +5

      Thank you @ghost mall , I needed this

    • @maximillianford9301
      @maximillianford9301 Před 2 lety +20

      @ghost mall 'literally' is just used for emphasis now bro

    • @oscarsrensen7280
      @oscarsrensen7280 Před 2 lety +3

      @ghost mall Yea, welcome to modern language, pal.

    • @jamonnaranjo
      @jamonnaranjo Před 2 lety +4

      @ghost mall you literally missed the point bro

    • @EmJeRo14
      @EmJeRo14 Před 2 lety +5

      @@maximillianford9301 just because the majority use that word incorrectly doesn't mean they're right. That's not how grammar works.

  • @mattmullin33609
    @mattmullin33609 Před 4 lety +533

    The people trying to sue Mark Ronson are laughable. You can’t sue just because every single funk song uses chicken scratch type guitar licks. If that’s true, then every single funk song ever is about to be sued by Nile Rogers.

    • @imchipjames
      @imchipjames Před 4 lety +44

      That's where i was landing on this. Am i allowed to play a dotted 16th note as a rhythmic support or are all those taken?

    • @eddixon2015
      @eddixon2015 Před 3 lety +13

      Suddenly everyone is going to owe Nile Rogers a lot of money

    • @theduckytaco7602
      @theduckytaco7602 Před 3 lety +3

      @@imchipjames one 32nd, thats all you get!

    • @leehamlet5900
      @leehamlet5900 Před 3 lety +1

      The credit for the ‘don’t believe me just watch’ lyric is so stupid

    • @bycodz
      @bycodz Před 8 dny

      @@leehamlet5900no it ain’t if u listen to Trinidad’s song it’s more than just that little part

  • @firstnamelastname061
    @firstnamelastname061 Před 3 lety +2475

    I like how the only artist who isn't petty about getting his music "stolen" is Tom Petty.

    • @bluemarlin6806
      @bluemarlin6806 Před 3 lety +53

      Actually, he sued Sam Smith.

    • @SkatePunkBanana
      @SkatePunkBanana Před 3 lety +88

      I believe Zepplin is also pretty chill when it comes to it. They acknowledge they ripped off a lot of blues tracks so they feel it'd be wrong to sue for someone ripping off one of theirs.

    • @okee9
      @okee9 Před 3 lety +63

      @@bluemarlin6806 He didn't, he had a co writer Jeff Lynn and he sued

    • @ccubsfan94
      @ccubsfan94 Před 3 lety +21

      @@bluemarlin6806 Wasn't him that sued, was the others who had credit on the track

    • @zoierenee724
      @zoierenee724 Před 3 lety +18

      he doesn't want to live like a refugee

  • @GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy
    @GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy Před 2 lety +94

    The keyboard intro to A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum (1967) is almost 100% Sleepers Awake by J.S. Bach. How did they get away with it?

    • @johnremp3470
      @johnremp3470 Před 2 lety +44

      Public domain

    • @WibblyWobblyBob
      @WibblyWobblyBob Před 2 lety +12

      Yep, Bach is out of copyright.

    • @H3AVYR0CK3R
      @H3AVYR0CK3R Před 2 lety +4

      A whiter shade of pale wasn't the only song that Procol Harum took classical inspiration from. To me it seems like lawyers have found a way to tax inspiration. How can you possibly come up with something entirely new without it, in some way, being affected by things you have experienced before.

    • @LakePlacidBear
      @LakePlacidBear Před 2 lety +2

      There is also a little bit of JS Bach in Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock Improvisation.
      Other instances also includes him kinda put Beatles’ riffs into his song and improvised them. I mean he basically covered Sgt Pepper three days after the initial release in front of the Beatles, yet even Paul said it’s a wonderful rendition.
      People don’t call Hendrix a copycat, rather we say Jimi was the most creative guitarist who ever walked on this planet.
      The issue should not be always focusing on people copying others’ riffs. It’s about how you are able to take those as inspiration and make it your style.

    • @unidentifiediconography8837
      @unidentifiediconography8837 Před 2 lety +1

      Yep... I don't care what song you're talking about... Bach did it first, and probably better... 🖖

  • @findercreations
    @findercreations Před 3 lety +86

    "What Vanilla Ice is trying to explain here...." I appreciate the translation.

    • @ArcDevErik
      @ArcDevErik Před 3 lety +1

      Seemed pretty straightforward.

  • @ellasharpe123
    @ellasharpe123 Před 4 lety +1574

    Ice Ice Baby sampled Queen’s bassline without even asking. How he thought he was gonna get away with it is beyond me.

    • @Kiki-zl2dk
      @Kiki-zl2dk Před 4 lety +176

      This is kinda irrelevant butit's okay lmao. I play bass, and I was practicing under pressure. My cousin came in and said "omg I love ice ice baby!" And I was like, no you uncultured swine

    • @Hunter2847
      @Hunter2847 Před 4 lety +5

      Kaylee Puterbaugh toy story

    • @novadowdell8042
      @novadowdell8042 Před 4 lety +58

      he stole the line from arguably one of the greatest and definitely one of the most popular bands.. how did he think he’d get away with stealing from queen & bowie ??

    • @mitchtrubiscuit7876
      @mitchtrubiscuit7876 Před 4 lety +9

      nova dowdell why is everyone dick riding Queen they are only popular now because of the movie and Wayne’s World so thank them their music isn’t very influential

    • @Ghooyable
      @Ghooyable Před 4 lety +72

      @@mitchtrubiscuit7876 lol, that's hilarious dude

  • @nameismy_ethan
    @nameismy_ethan Před 3 lety +799

    “i’m afraid to touch the guitar because i might be touching somebodies note” that hit so hard and is such a relevant statement

    • @joshuafreedman7703
      @joshuafreedman7703 Před 3 lety +7

      matthias • Will ** PLEASE go and kick Don Henley in the balls??

    • @n3rds3y3vi3w
      @n3rds3y3vi3w Před 3 lety +21

      In hindsight he was being overly dramatic. He should’ve just taken the L and kept it moving.

    •  Před 3 lety

      IKR???

    • @DA-js7xz
      @DA-js7xz Před 3 lety +14

      Nah. He clearly ripped off the song

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 Před 3 lety +1

      Now you know how George Harrison felt with My sweet Lord.

  • @tommasofogli8845
    @tommasofogli8845 Před 3 lety +58

    The strokes "bad decisions" is identical to "dancing with myself"

    • @joshuabrunetta4656
      @joshuabrunetta4656 Před 3 lety +2

      Ya bc it was co-written by Billie Joel and done on purpose lol

    • @falconier1979
      @falconier1979 Před 3 lety +9

      @@joshuabrunetta4656 Do you mean Billie Idol?

    • @joshuabrunetta4656
      @joshuabrunetta4656 Před 3 lety +1

      @@falconier1979 ya my bad. Daddy was highhhhh last night

  • @loftnessmonster980
    @loftnessmonster980 Před 2 lety +6

    Fun little Under Pressure fact is that that sample in question almost didn't exist! John came up with the bass riff and played it to the others and it had been working well. They all took a break (cue Q + Bowie grabbing pizza together) and when they got back in the room he could not remember how it went or what he'd been playing - luckily for planet earth, Rog remembered it (and presumably having ding ding ding dada ding ding sung at him was enough to jog John's memory)

  • @jakelawson1
    @jakelawson1 Před 3 lety +2781

    "What Vanilla Ice is trying to say here" is such marvelous shade.

    • @lazer2365
      @lazer2365 Před 3 lety +88

      He's trying to say "Ding-ding-ding-diggy-ding-ding...

    • @tomlewis5542
      @tomlewis5542 Před 3 lety +4

      How about everybody agreed to stop using that term shade sounds quite ghetto

    • @mosquerajoseph7305
      @mosquerajoseph7305 Před 3 lety +18

      @@tomlewis5542 is that your only problem with using the term “shade” lol

    • @jakemode
      @jakemode Před 3 lety +2

      They added an 8th note. That's it.

    • @randomhero2480
      @randomhero2480 Před 3 lety +6

      @@obscurity3027 why is he a tool though? He seems like a nice and respectful guy. He was just trying to make some money. Do you have a reason for not liking him, or just based off face value?

  • @tubthungusbychumbungus
    @tubthungusbychumbungus Před 4 lety +1974

    so what ive learnt is funk is illegal

    • @DavidBennettPiano
      @DavidBennettPiano  Před 4 lety +125

      DoNOTannoyKarina got to have that funk

    • @jaschul
      @jaschul Před 4 lety +49

      @@DavidBennettPiano To paraphrase George Clinton, "Funk! It Ain't Illegal Yet!"

    • @timespace.productions7513
      @timespace.productions7513 Před 4 lety +16

      @@DavidBennettPiano I read a story about the origins of Come Together by the Beatles that exemplifies how aware Paul McCartney was of copyright infringement.

    • @learntospell
      @learntospell Před 4 lety +8

      Come Together was written by Lennon.

    • @unclepodger
      @unclepodger Před 4 lety +4

      THIS IS NOT FAIR
      I WANT MORE FUNK OR ELSE I WILL COME COUNTLESS WAR CRIMES

  • @CROPDUSTERB-52
    @CROPDUSTERB-52 Před 3 lety +33

    YOO WHEN I HEARD THE PLANTS VS ZOMBIES THEME I BURST OUT LAUGHING.

  • @jasonswan4544
    @jasonswan4544 Před 3 lety +5

    I can speak that as a studying composer at university, in the 12-tone scale it would be obvious to hear similar melodies and chord progressions in many pieces of music for certain genres... it happens on accident more than some people would believe.
    After even a few lessons in music theory, it becomes really stupid hearing about lawsuits involving music/copyright infringement. Everyone borrows, everyone recognizes certain rhythms and chord progressions.

  • @1996thrh
    @1996thrh Před 4 lety +537

    Tom Petty probably thought to himself "I'm not going to sue a band just because we both play a C octave chord to begin our song." Tom wasn't Petty. RIP.

    • @NathanKwadade
      @NathanKwadade Před 4 lety +1

      1996thrh nice 👍🏾 pun... thought 💭 of the same pun though.

    • @LudiColorado
      @LudiColorado Před 4 lety +7

      well, TECHNICALLY American Girl starts on a D octave chord and was pitch adjusted to match Last Nite. But yes, good on him for not caring lol

    • @reimourrpower9357
      @reimourrpower9357 Před 4 lety +12

      Tom Petty was great songwriter. What he also knows that any great songwriter has appropriated certain elements from their greater songwrriter forebares and influences that nobody caught them for. It's all a matter of how generously you 'adapt' other elements and how much is truly original.

    • @mykecaouette4940
      @mykecaouette4940 Před 4 lety +6

      he sued sam smith lol

    • @stevieframe
      @stevieframe Před 4 lety +3

      @@mykecaouette4940 his record company sued Smith.

  • @honestjohn3865
    @honestjohn3865 Před 4 lety +3574

    “White rapper in Florida with a funny haircut” 😂

  • @michalzajac1158
    @michalzajac1158 Před 3 lety +62

    Gotye "Some body that I used to know" is a dressed up "bah bah black sheep"

    • @neiltwaterhouse
      @neiltwaterhouse Před 3 lety +5

      To be fair, Bah Bah Black Sheep/Twinkle twinkle etc is in the public domain. But the opening guitar plucking sample was used without permission and he got some heat for that.

    • @Elbowbanditest2003
      @Elbowbanditest2003 Před 2 lety

      Actually I found another song that's similar to the you didn't have to turd me off part it's by Fleetwood mac I can't remember the song so yeah he took that part

    • @I_like_turtles_67
      @I_like_turtles_67 Před 3 měsíci

      Trinidad sampled Too Short and Too Short sampled HIS song. 😂

  • @susanandrews2294
    @susanandrews2294 Před 2 lety +21

    So glad I stumbled across this channel. I love music but am not a musician, so greatly appreciate how you break things down into laypeople terms :-) Keep up the good work!

    • @CC3193
      @CC3193 Před 7 měsíci

      I’ve always liked music, but as I’ve gotten older - over 35, over 40 - I’m enjoying it more & more! And especially older music, different genres & styles, and the backgrounds & stories behind songs, groups and performances.

  • @Melky_Man
    @Melky_Man Před 3 lety +482

    Vanilla Ice: explains something in the worst way
    David Bennett: *what vanilla ice is trying to say is*

  • @jedizombiekiller9065
    @jedizombiekiller9065 Před 3 lety +794

    Uptown Funk: exists
    Every Funk Band: *Our Property*

    • @maryspencer4975
      @maryspencer4975 Před 3 lety +8

      I know. How many songs staked a claim on Uptown Funk? I lost track.

    • @maryspencer4975
      @maryspencer4975 Před 3 lety +8

      I think there were 5.

    • @LastBastian
      @LastBastian Před 3 lety +10

      Add "Jungle Love" by "The Time" to the list.

    • @jasonm9178
      @jasonm9178 Před 3 lety +17

      It's because new artists are barely artists and mainly an image...lyrics written by ghost writers and produced by other people..hell half of the "artists" can't even sing good

    • @annaborbely2789
      @annaborbely2789 Před 3 lety +28

      @@jasonm9178 well true but it's been like that since the 50's, Elvis never wrote a single song nor did Frank Sinatra. i feel like every generation has the same realisation that nothing's authentic 'anymore'

  • @fyratvanoll3497
    @fyratvanoll3497 Před 3 lety +45

    "everyone's favorite artist"
    I can't tell if his joking

  • @olafkliemt1145
    @olafkliemt1145 Před 3 lety +5

    well, i think you can find similar progressions and melodies everywhere. it is virtually impossible to compose a song that doesn't have any elements that have been used before, even if you have never heard them.

  • @novadowdell8042
    @novadowdell8042 Před 4 lety +291

    later in the interview with roger taylor he said “try and dance yourself outta that one vanilla” and that has got to be one of the funniest things i’ve heard about the ice ice baby shenanigans

    • @saraa136
      @saraa136 Před 3 lety +6

      LMAO he always throws the perfect shade

    • @vikmarisco5679
      @vikmarisco5679 Před 3 lety +1

      Next thing you know there will be a Dance Off between Van ice and R.T .

  • @isaacthomas6544
    @isaacthomas6544 Před 4 lety +1904

    Some of the lawsuits against Uptown Funk are extremely silly and unfair. Like that guitar riff -- I was in jazz band in high school and that riff is like, one of the most common funk music riffs. Wow, a funk song features syncopation and riffs? Who would have thought?

    • @joermnyc
      @joermnyc Před 4 lety +80

      Isaac Thomas I read that Mark Roson was so obsessed with perfecting that guitar part he actually ended up passing out in the studio after hundreds of takes.

    • @magnustp1429
      @magnustp1429 Před 4 lety +139

      "Syncopated fourths on beat 1 and 3 are only allowed to be in my song" - some greedy guy

    • @MrDamojak
      @MrDamojak Před 4 lety +37

      Who would have funk?

    • @the-engneer
      @the-engneer Před 4 lety +25

      Song is generic pop nonsense anyway

    • @kuleulrik7349
      @kuleulrik7349 Před 4 lety +39

      It's almost like trying to copyright the lick in jazz, or a I-V-iv-VI in pop

  • @jonnybirchyboy1560
    @jonnybirchyboy1560 Před 3 lety +5

    08:12 well Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” also sounds suspiciously like the Jayhawks’ “Waiting for the Sun”

  • @Orv129
    @Orv129 Před 3 lety +12

    There are only so many chords so sometimes things will sound similar.

    • @bens3767
      @bens3767 Před 3 lety +4

      This is kind of a silly comment chords are the same but melody structure and tempo are endless... Let's not be naive and think these artists don't know what they're doing....

  • @lightningteam8560
    @lightningteam8560 Před 3 lety +435

    I love how when you're a drummer you see people arguing about things that sound almost like others when in drums you play things that are so universal that everyone does it

    • @AYEGEEArt
      @AYEGEEArt Před 3 lety +11

      Lmao , Definitely! Sometimes the songs they even mention to compare are the songs you're not even familiar with😂

    • @robertwheatley8809
      @robertwheatley8809 Před 3 lety +4

      He's much more than a drummer. He writes some of the music and sings too.

    • @peterlittle4357
      @peterlittle4357 Před 3 lety +1

      @@robertwheatley8809 who? Who's more than a drummer?

    • @robertwheatley8809
      @robertwheatley8809 Před 3 lety +2

      @@peterlittle4357 I think I was talking about queens roger Taylor

    • @petek7217
      @petek7217 Před 3 lety +6

      Dana Carey of tool says good luck copying my beats..

  • @jacobsmith2492
    @jacobsmith2492 Před 4 lety +2288

    Teacher: you plagiarized this paper
    Vanilla Ice: No I didn’t!! I changed this word right here
    😂😂😂

    • @ChristinaJ01126
      @ChristinaJ01126 Před 4 lety +6

      Noah Derkos What

    • @MrRhombus
      @MrRhombus Před 4 lety +7

      Vanilla is a lazy student
      Chocolate is getting a scholarship

    • @NickChase
      @NickChase Před 3 lety

      Lol 😂

    • @joandrumz3176
      @joandrumz3176 Před 3 lety +3

      Me holding a presentation:
      My teacher: You stole that text from wikipedia
      Me: Nooo, I changed that word, see?

    • @ew6483
      @ew6483 Před 3 lety +5

      My mum’s a teacher and a student got called out for plagiarism from Spark Notes. It was impressive because the plagiarism didn’t even answer the question or follow an essay format! The student was given a 0 but a chance to try again. They submitted the exact same thing but got a thesaurus and changed a few words and structures...

  • @razakza
    @razakza Před 3 lety +9

    "This video is sponsored by the rich..."
    I did bit of a double take there. LOL!

  • @wfly81
    @wfly81 Před rokem +4

    The thing about George Harrison is that he most certainly heard "He's So Fine" at some point in passing, but didn't realize it. He never noticed it, but it seeped into his subconscious and then later manifested in his consciousness as an original idea. In copyright law, saying I've never heard that song before can be a defense, if it can be proven that you've never heard that song. But outside of the song having been recorded and put on a shelf and never released, it's near impossible in the modern age.

  • @toplingtower1
    @toplingtower1 Před 4 lety +1823

    What Vanilla Ice is 'trying to say', made me laugh when you said that twice, clearly he wasnt capable of saying much

    • @joeessig3550
      @joeessig3550 Před 4 lety +79

      To be fair, he was pretty clear in both of the interviews. But I get it, he’s a dummy and that’s funny.

    • @DerekHartley
      @DerekHartley Před 4 lety +47

      @@joeessig3550 He wasn't clear at all. He made a hash of describing the rhythm changes in Ice Ice Baby and in the other interview just sounded like an arrogant twat and took about 3 minutes to say 'My record sold a lot more than most rap records which is why they went after me'.

    • @ByeX360
      @ByeX360 Před 4 lety +72

      Queen: NOOOOO YOU CAN'T STEAL THE RHYTHM WITHOUT PAYING ROYALTIES
      Vanilla Ice: hahaha this song goes ding ding ding

    • @gaijininja
      @gaijininja Před 4 lety +6

      His speaking is like his singing. Fake.

    • @Udontkno7
      @Udontkno7 Před 4 lety +18

      @@DerekHartley I mean, he's not wrong. Nobody cares if some small artist makes a song with extreme similarities. But, if it's big, there's money to be made. They want credit.

  • @applehack97
    @applehack97 Před 4 lety +696

    Vanilla Ice might have been an asshole regarding his use of Under Pressure's sample, but he was absolutely right about how these lawsuits always go for the multi-millionaire record breaking hits, even if there's barely a thing in common between the songs

    • @AT-rr2xw
      @AT-rr2xw Před 4 lety +59

      Sure, it makes sense. Going after someone who has made only a little bit of money off of a song and probably cannot afford to go through the legal process risks resulting in royalties that do not cover the legal costs and make the plaintiff look bad.
      Regardless, I believe that the lawsuit was warranted in Ice's case. The same with "My Sweet Lord" by Harrison. I dislike the "Blurred Lines" song, but I felt that the lawsuit there was a stretch.

    • @TurboSixxSpeed
      @TurboSixxSpeed Před 4 lety +29

      @@AT-rr2xw unfortunately a lot of things have changed since then. at least in Vanilla Ice's time, you could go Gold and still "be under the radar". nowadays, youtube and other platforms have Content ID bots scouring for any similarities to do copyright strikes on youtube. its gotten so bad, that beginner artists are using samples they have paid for as a consumer (buying a sample pack) and getting songs flagged just because they use the same samples that someone else had (which they both got from the same sample packs). its ridiculous.

    • @saoirsedeltufo7436
      @saoirsedeltufo7436 Před 4 lety +5

      It's true, but not from a good perspective necessarily. The fact that people can't necessarily afford lawyers, especially for a song that won't get much in royalties, doesn't deflect from the fact that they're still stealing the riff

    • @DrSardonicus
      @DrSardonicus Před 4 lety +8

      Tobías Yance yeah? So what!
      Of course what vanilla ice said was true. It’s not remarkable or the mind of a genius. Absolutely your chances of being sued would exponentially rise if you (or the song specifically) had huge success. Like, no shit, Sherlock!
      What’s the incentive to sue a nobody or a song that never reached any success? Why are we praising vanilla ice for something that is so dim wittingly obvious that my left shoe would’ve come to the same conclusion.
      Coming up on National News at Nine; scientists discover ‘water is wet!’ Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, head scientist at the institute of ‘Fucking Obvious Shit’, the FOS, has released a statement exposing the fact that Vanilla freakin’ Ice was the genius to discover the wetness properties of water.
      Truly remarkable revelations everybody. I just hope the world of science and religion can come together and cope with such a magnanimous discovery of this obvious piece of shit.
      The very foundation of society and faith have been shaken to its core today. What else could be rattling around in the fascinating mind of Iced Vanilla?!
      May god help us all.

    • @keith6706
      @keith6706 Před 4 lety +5

      First rule of lawsuits: if you're seeking damages you don't sue poor people.

  • @jamesgarnett3269
    @jamesgarnett3269 Před rokem +2

    You could mention "Wish you were here" by Pink Ployd being close to "Almost Independence day" by Van Morrison. Recently I realised that many songs from the Shins sound a lot like "Wine and Dined" by Syd Barrett. "Wait for the summer" from Yeasayer is strongly influenced by "Rain and Snow" by Pentangle, which is a traditionnal tune but Yeasayer didn't mention it.

  • @RebMordechaiReviews
    @RebMordechaiReviews Před 2 lety +1

    Have you also noticed that the exact same note combination used for The Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius" in 1982 from Eye in The Sky, is employed in the Tears For Fears track "Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams" from 1990. The melody, in a loop cannot be coincidental. If I am not mistaken, it may even be in the same key.
    "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" is a book by Sylvia Plath, a collection of short stories, published in 1977, after her death. Tears For Fears in their album recordings for "Songs From the Big Chair", borrowed the book title as it fitted the album's concept theme of mental illness. Sylvia Plath had a preoccupation with issues of mental illness which became a recurring theme in her books. She also writes about the universe and planets and does mention the brightest star in the sky, that is "Sirius"!. I wonder if Tears For Fears also saw the connection?

  • @kh22912
    @kh22912 Před 3 lety +283

    The moment when Vanilla Ice was roasted by a member of Queen
    "He is just a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut" 🤣🤣🤣

    • @user-es6hj2mb9d
      @user-es6hj2mb9d Před 3 lety +12

      kh22912 and at the end of the interview Roger goes “Dance your way out of that one Vanilla” ahahahhaha yes Roger is a savage

    • @jamesstephenson9546
      @jamesstephenson9546 Před 3 lety +1

      That’s how you know you f***ed up

    • @mitchelltyler5972
      @mitchelltyler5972 Před 3 lety +3

      Ice roasts himself, looking like that. Guy from Queen literally just gives an apt description of him lol.

    • @dx.feelgood5825
      @dx.feelgood5825 Před 3 lety

      @@mitchelltyler5972 I haven't seen that part yet but I'm willing to bet it was probably Roger

    • @beauxguidry5373
      @beauxguidry5373 Před 3 lety +1

      I have to ask this then. Is there any worse diss from a group then then the drummer putting someone in a corner? I know, but the member that gets the least respect according to jokes is the drummer. And yes, I am a drummer.

  • @craigwilliams9279
    @craigwilliams9279 Před 4 lety +553

    "What Vanilla Ice is trying to say here..."
    This made me laugh. It's like he needs translating.

    • @wokkus5610
      @wokkus5610 Před 4 lety +4

      Yep lol. He’s too inarticulate to get his point across

    • @Myrick313
      @Myrick313 Před 4 lety +2

      What Vanilla ice said was the truth though.

    • @virtual_it_admin2065
      @virtual_it_admin2065 Před 4 lety +2

      @DVN, technically yes, but he's still an inarticulate dumbass.

  • @ChannelZero1031
    @ChannelZero1031 Před 3 lety +5

    3:25 BIG DEAL! It's the shaker that's thrown into the mix. STILL THE SAME SONG

  • @Pequinito
    @Pequinito Před 2 lety

    I would like to get something off that's been bugging me for a long time, and that's the similarities between Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre and the Travelling Home, which itself is based on the Scottish tune Westering Home. They're both 3/4 time, and have similar sentiments in the lyrics, and with the bagpipes have a Scottish flavour. Is there anything you can comment on there? Thanks.

  • @Mikaz24
    @Mikaz24 Před 3 lety +535

    "Hey, Queen can I copy your homework?" "Yea, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied."

    • @tillysalmon585
      @tillysalmon585 Před 3 lety +17

      “Yes but just change it the slightest slightest bit which does absolutely nothing for you because it still sounds the exact same”
      Think vanilla ice needs to copy homework a bit more carefully

    • @phatphat7089
      @phatphat7089 Před 3 lety

      Ding

    • @dirkpehrke9909
      @dirkpehrke9909 Před 3 lety +2

      Queen did the same with the bassline to Good Times from Chic on Another One Bites The Dust and never credited them. Instead of changing it a bit, they dumbed it down for their mainstream rock audience.

    • @thomasfarmer1730
      @thomasfarmer1730 Před 3 lety

      Ha ha fuckin geez🤣

    • @fazza2104
      @fazza2104 Před 3 lety

      More like, secretly steals it photocopies it and changes the name at the top then secretly gives it back

  • @WhozWolfgang
    @WhozWolfgang Před 4 lety +331

    The funk thing is silly, it's like copywriting a 12 bar blues. You just can't.

    • @MasterNcognito
      @MasterNcognito Před 4 lety +5

      Wolfgang Seriously, who funking cares?

    • @mrstud_1114
      @mrstud_1114 Před 4 lety +11

      @@MasterNcognito I funking care now pay me 5 mill because you played a open chord

    • @joedav67
      @joedav67 Před 4 lety +1

      Shouldn’t all those artists be suing each other though? If they all say his song is the same as theirs, then wouldn’t those songs also be the same?

    • @mrstud_1114
      @mrstud_1114 Před 4 lety +1

      @@joedav67 They didn't make alot to sue for so they sued the one that made alot of money

  • @audiotyresup
    @audiotyresup Před 2 lety +3

    For the melody, you can see this quite often in songs from artists where Joe Bruce and Joey Utsler (ICP) are involved. Listened to the Inner City Posse albums? You may have caught melodies from songs like MC Rob Base and DJ EZ Roc's "It Takes Two," or Psychopathic Ryda albums with songs like "Scrimps" using the same one from Biggy Smalls' "Juicy." There's gotta be thousands of songs where major artists, and the underground, used at least the melody, etc. or even mimicked the lyrics.
    Yeah, "Burry Your Friend" sounds so much like "People are Strange" because of the (at least when I first read about it) minimal 3 note difference to avoid copyright infringement.

  • @arjitjere1559
    @arjitjere1559 Před 3 lety +1

    First time i have come across this channel ,great analysis of copied notes! In depth and good explanations👍

  • @saracole7623
    @saracole7623 Před 3 lety +310

    Tom Petty was amazing. He didn't care if other people took a little somthin from his music, he *wrote a song for Scooby Doo* and he went on tour with a busted hip.
    R.I.P Tom Petty

    • @robf6105
      @robf6105 Před 3 lety +12

      That's cool about the Scooby Doo song. However, he was bothered by Sam Smith allegedly ripping off "I Won't Back Down." They settled the dispute amicably without going to court. I'm sure that some money was exchanged.

    • @markspitzok3064
      @markspitzok3064 Před 3 lety +16

      Tom petty was a class act!

    • @lauramessy
      @lauramessy Před 3 lety +1

      @@robf6105 i didn't know that

    • @vzeller
      @vzeller Před 3 lety +2

      Sure he cared, know the facts. He sued the pants off of Sam Smith when "Stay with Me" was released. It was basically "Won't back down."

    • @spearfisherman308
      @spearfisherman308 Před 3 lety

      @@vzeller what's funny is that he stole the riff from every breath you take.

  • @sweet_peas_studio
    @sweet_peas_studio Před 4 lety +572

    "Hes a white rapper from Florida great right with a funny hair cut." I love Roger XD

  • @skymoore3177
    @skymoore3177 Před 3 lety

    What version of Get Free would 6:25 be called? Is it just like her natural voice? Was it some live performance? I’d love to know and find it!

  • @TheBlackQueen
    @TheBlackQueen Před 3 lety +5

    10:33 This actually is not true. There is a legal difference between Innocent Infringement and Willful Infringement. The former requires that there be no proof that the accused would have ever heard the song they are said to have plagiarised and thus is not subject to legal penalties. The latter, however, does indeed have penalties if proven to have been plagiarised.
    Harrison was sued, not because he never heard the Chiffon's song, but because he subconsciously plagiarised the song, of which is not free of legal penalties and is in fact treated no different from Willful Infringement. Harrison admitted that he had heard the song, but did not think it was similar until country singer Jody Miller recorded a cover of He's So Fine with his slide guitar riff. He argued that his and the Chiffon's song were both derived from the hymn Oh Happy Day, of which he claims primary influence from, but the court ruled against that in 1976 and instead found that he subconsciously plagiarised the song, and thus had to pay royalties to the writers of the song. To make matters worse, the Chiffon's recorded a cover of My Sweet Lord a year before the verdict to hammer the similarities in.
    George Harrison, despite losing the case, was more than happy to pay royalties in the case that he did accidentally take from the song. There's really not a bad bone in this man.

  • @brodybazzini6729
    @brodybazzini6729 Před 3 lety +1523

    That Jim Morrison photo is iconic.

    • @parkerreese9438
      @parkerreese9438 Před 3 lety +13

      Nah the one when his filiming ray on TV is the best

    • @nobletrahan1
      @nobletrahan1 Před 3 lety +3

      Agreed

    • @droppe3405
      @droppe3405 Před 3 lety +56

      @@parkerreese9438 so is his mugshot. He has tons of iconic photos

    • @NPGLAMB
      @NPGLAMB Před 3 lety +28

      I knew a schizophrenic guy who thought he was Jim Morrison. I will never think of Jim the same again

    • @l.russellbrown9732
      @l.russellbrown9732 Před 3 lety +1

      Miguel Bose totally ripped his #1 hit Don DIABLO
      From L.Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer s song
      WIGGLE N A GIGGLE ALL NIGHT
      BOSE LOST AND HAD HIS NAME REMOVED FROM THE COPYRIGHT.

  • @dualityofman1253
    @dualityofman1253 Před 3 lety +426

    I once read that Jim Morrison wrote "People Are Strange" while taking a walk in the Hollywood Hills. He was at his bandmates house and was depressed over a girl, so he decided to take a walk and that's when the melody came to him. He wrote the lyrics on the spot in order to retain the melody. From my understanding, he used this formula to write many of The Doors greatest songs.

    • @Lizards_Lounge
      @Lizards_Lounge Před 3 lety +11

      Yea, sometimes melodies just come into your head,
      Ve created more noise that way than ever trying to sit and force something..
      Get on the tar and play it, from there what should come next seems pretty natural to add to mostly.

    • @jamesmccann2087
      @jamesmccann2087 Před 3 lety +18

      most morrisons songs were poems he wrote.

    • @ericktellez7632
      @ericktellez7632 Před 3 lety +3

      He was a terrible singer tho

    • @geraldcollins7748
      @geraldcollins7748 Před 3 lety +1

      How about shadow of the day and with or without you? I can hear it. I love both songs though.

    • @absfairabbyfouts7099
      @absfairabbyfouts7099 Před 3 lety

      THATS HOW I WRITE SONGS!!!!

  • @MosheRaviv
    @MosheRaviv Před 2 lety +4

    It's also worth mentioning that in addition to paying a one time compensation fee to the family of Ronnie Mack (the writer of He's So Fine), George Harrison avoided ongoing profit sharing by *buying the record company* (Bright Tunes Music) that owned the copyright of He's So Fine 😁

  • @wyldewood
    @wyldewood Před 2 lety

    would be nice if you had the info to share about the different cases, because a motive can't be copyrighted right?

  • @kalb1ss1blak21
    @kalb1ss1blak21 Před 4 lety +423

    Vanilla Ice: You know what I'm saying
    Mr. David Piano: So what Vanilla Ice is saying.

    • @MsJerrySparkle
      @MsJerrySparkle Před 4 lety +3

      *trying to say

    • @JonBecker81
      @JonBecker81 Před 4 lety

      That actually made me mad. Ice wasn’t “trying to say” he actually DID say and I understood him completely without the pompous British explanation. I hate it when people say “so what you’re trying to say” or something along those lines. Whoever says things like that feel like they are superior to whoever made the original comment and that their interpretation is necessary because of how much better they are.

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Před 4 lety +1

      @@JonBecker81 not necessarily, repeating or rephrasing what another person says shows that you're actually listening. You can't repeat without really listening. Now, because this is an on camera interview, and the personality clash, you may be right in this case. But don't think it's like that that in every one-on-one conversation.

  • @pdreding
    @pdreding Před 4 lety +372

    So there's natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, Hungarian minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Ukranian Dorian, Phrigian dominant … Just how many minor modes are there!?

    • @DavidBennettPiano
      @DavidBennettPiano  Před 4 lety +118

      Patrick Reding really there are three main minor scales... Natural, Harmonic and Melodic.
      Of those, harmonic and natural are by far the most common.
      Then there are minor modes including Dorian and Phrygian.
      And beyond that, although other scales have names (like the Hungarian minor) you can just think about them as variations of the main scales I’ve already mentioned. So you may as well think about Hungarian minor as “harmonic minor with a #4”
      I hope that helps!

    • @AntjedePantje
      @AntjedePantje Před 4 lety +12

      12Tone has just released a video about modes, you should check it out! Turns out there are a LOT 😂

    • @davidcantwell2489
      @davidcantwell2489 Před 4 lety +7

      @@DavidBennettPiano
      My brain hurts ...... =^>

    • @TheRealGirlWeeb
      @TheRealGirlWeeb Před 4 lety +1

      There's also Melodic Minor.
      Just leaving the smol bit of musical knowledge i do have here.

    • @Dismoeyy
      @Dismoeyy Před 4 lety +3

      12Tone also recommends this incredibly interesting site fyi:
      ianring.com/musictheory/scales/

  • @maskandmirror9825
    @maskandmirror9825 Před 2 lety +3

    Funnily enough, the song that always comes to my mind everytime I hear "Uptown Funk" is Duran Duran's "Notorious", but that might be because that song has a strong funk influence as well.

  • @Gottenhimfella
    @Gottenhimfella Před rokem +3

    "Down Under" writers, Men at Work (Australian iconic band) were suddessfully sued for 5% of royalties for a couple of short quotes in a flute solo (injected very inventively into a completely different musical context, which lifts trite melody snippets from a kids' song, entitled "Kookaburra", to an entirely higher plane). The song writer would almost certainly have been delighted, but they'd written the song half a century earlier and were long gone. The rights had passed to the publishing company, Larrikin, who as far as I'm concerned, live in infamy ever since.

  • @bluepinkman4785
    @bluepinkman4785 Před 4 lety +252

    That George Harrison incident was indeed scary for young musicians who are trying their best to write songs. Coincidence indeed happen that way.

    • @shamu3990
      @shamu3990 Před 3 lety +16

      Well it never would have happened if it wasnt George Harrison, so most young musicians are probably safe, although it is quite scary

    • @JuicyJoey
      @JuicyJoey Před 3 lety +31

      There were clear differences in the song too, kind of ridiculous if you ask me. For people who casually listen to music they wouldn’t even notice that both songs are similar at all.

    • @kevinhaakede
      @kevinhaakede Před 3 lety +12

      I never realised until it got pitch corrected to be in the same key wow

    • @j_freed
      @j_freed Před 3 lety +1

      I guess never write a boring predictable song, and you won't fall into the trap…

    • @skipacuff5104
      @skipacuff5104 Před 3 lety +7

      @@j_freed of sounding like a jerk? You obviously know.

  • @HaniffMohd21
    @HaniffMohd21 Před 4 lety +439

    *ABC need to sue twinkle twinkle little star* the guy deserved royalty

    • @harini6092
      @harini6092 Před 4 lety +5

      Ikr, I hope David talks about this in his next video 😂

    • @ipsurvivor
      @ipsurvivor Před 4 lety +9

      Haniff Mohd - Twinkle Twinkle came before ABC. Mozart wrote it as a variation on a French Nursery Rhyme. I get the joke though... good One...

    • @nickwall2497
      @nickwall2497 Před 4 lety +2

      Public Property now. Not eligible for copyright

    • @Richard_Nickerson
      @Richard_Nickerson Před 4 lety

      You mean Bouin should sue all those other 3 since it's really "Ah vous dirais-je, Maman".
      Too bad he wrote it in 1761... a little past its expiration date. Also, it wasn't original even to him either, so...

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k Před 4 lety

      @@Richard_Nickerson A bit before the concept of copyright was invented is what you mean. The first copyright law came about in 1710 and only covered books. It was intended to promote learning by encouraging publishing of books by removing the monopoly rights of the publishers and vesting them in the authors and the owners of the printed product. It was 1777 before France started following this notion that the author owned a right to publish.

  • @erepsekahs
    @erepsekahs Před 10 měsíci

    You are very correct. Thank you for this, I have just subscribed. You are one of the very few people on youtube who truly knows what they are typing about.
    Additionally, Vanilla Ice should be horse whipped for his insolence.
    Have you noticed "The Mary Tyler Moore Theme' has been 'borrowed' by the composers of the, (I can't remember which now), either the opening or closing themes for Downton Abbey? I don't think there is any doubt about that.

  • @Tuqio
    @Tuqio Před 3 lety

    2 bands I discovered that sound in the intro of their songs is:
    30 seconds to mars: the kill
    &
    The red jumpsuit apparatus: misery loves its company.

  • @thomasjefferson2257
    @thomasjefferson2257 Před 4 lety +223

    2:55 Me explaining the teacher that I didn’t copy the classmates homework.

  • @aaronclift
    @aaronclift Před 4 lety +509

    The “Blurred Lines” case decision has completely messed up song copyright law.

    • @joermnyc
      @joermnyc Před 4 lety +43

      Aaron Clift but Stairway to Heaven having it’s case overturned may have fixed that. Apparently Blurred Lines is the way it is because the lawyers for Thicke and Pharrell messed up pre-trial motions and were unable to file an appeal.

    • @Kylora2112
      @Kylora2112 Před 4 lety +19

      @@joermnyc But at the same time, they made a conscious effort to mimic the feel and timbre of the entire rhythm section. If I wrote a song that had zero harmonic or melodic similarity to "When The Levee Breaks," but used a sample of John Bonham's drums from that track (or tried to recreate the sound by using the same the pattern and getting the same reverb and echo), that'd be copyright infringement, but if I just had the same drum beat, there wouldn't be an issue (because you can't really copyright a rock drum beat). You have to have more than just a couple of bars of melody to infringe (Robin Thick and Pharrell took an entire rhythm track for Blurred Lines). The My Sweet Lord Decision was right (even John Lennon said George should have mixed it up a bit). I'm also pretty sure George heard He's So Fine more than once (it was a massive hit in both the US and the UK in the 60s).
      The Stairway Decision set the precedent that you can't copyright line cliche and the subsequent Dark Horse Appeal set the precedent that you can't copyright a scale, so those were good.

    • @ianfreud
      @ianfreud Před 4 lety +8

      Kylie McInnes I don’t think you can say Thick and Pharrell “took an entire rhythm track.” The two pieces are wildly, wildly different apart from a couple of seconds. It’s an attempt to copyright a rhythm and a two note bass phrase. There’s a Legal Eagle CZcams where he pretty conclusively proves (using the Stairway/Dark Horses) that the outcome of the Blurred Lines case was more bad lawyering than anything else. Complex video, but Neely’s in it for the musician angle too.

    • @BlockDefender
      @BlockDefender Před 4 lety

      On topic, the song ROLLIN' from the k-pop group Twice lifted their intro from Blurred Lines

    • @MarkNealon
      @MarkNealon Před 4 lety +9

      You might even say it's blurred the lines of what's infringement

  • @jessespaulding3444
    @jessespaulding3444 Před 2 lety +6

    literally, these videos are so well done. thank you for putting in so much time and effort!

  • @dnisbet71
    @dnisbet71 Před rokem +1

    Also, the classic example missing from every list here and on the internet: Michael Bolton vs Ronald Isley, over the song "Love is a Wonderful Thing." - not even the same tune, but the ruling was based on, multiple similarities. (edit: forgot to add: Viva la Vida by Coldplay)

  • @lewashby8662
    @lewashby8662 Před 4 lety +312

    Vanilla Ice looks like a Vice City character

    • @timmytoms__
      @timmytoms__ Před 4 lety +1

      😂

    • @scorpionwins6378
      @scorpionwins6378 Před 4 lety +4

      Vanilla Ice just looks plain stupid

    • @GeorginoEstevez
      @GeorginoEstevez Před 4 lety

      @@timmytoms__ hahahaha

    • @geesus14
      @geesus14 Před 4 lety

      Tommy vercetti, yeaah didn't think they'd ever let him out

    • @devilsson6660
      @devilsson6660 Před 4 lety +1

      Vice city looks like vanilla ice...theres quite a few years before vc was out ...that interview close to 30 yrs old obviously older than xbox or ps

  • @octorocker5365
    @octorocker5365 Před 4 lety +151

    Vanilla ice: we added 1 extra note so it’s totally different.
    Everybody: yeah... no!

  • @DenWench
    @DenWench Před 3 lety

    I thought I heard a cover version of Counting Crows' Daylight Fading, in a shop, last week. After investigating, I discovered it was a song called Just Another Day by Rod Williams.

  • @UghDroppingLoads
    @UghDroppingLoads Před 3 lety +3

    Don’t forget about Bruno Mars “Locked out of heaven” and The Police “I can’t stand losing” have basically the same chorus.

  • @inazuma3gou
    @inazuma3gou Před 4 lety +354

    I love how you translated everything Vanilla Ice said.

  • @guillaumetzm
    @guillaumetzm Před 3 lety +796

    I'm gonna write a program that make millions of combinations to melody and chords progressions, publish all the tunes, wait for someone to create a song that becomes a hit which will statistically have the same notes than one of my song and then sue the artist.... Anyway, copyright is getting ridiculous....

    • @Arrica101
      @Arrica101 Před 3 lety +50

      That has already been done. Someone created an algorithm that would produce every conceivable variation of an 8 note melody. It is an interesting watch, czcams.com/video/sJtm0MoOgiU/video.html

    • @EnricoDiLauro
      @EnricoDiLauro Před 3 lety +6

      For real man! Its ridiculous

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 Před 3 lety +14

      OR........ maybe you don't understand copyright law, since there are a myriad of aspects to it, such as the defendant having access to the original tune.
      If you don't publish and no one hears... you ain't got squat when it comes to rights.

    • @jenm1
      @jenm1 Před 3 lety +23

      Capitalism kills creativity. This is a prime example.

    • @nightspicer
      @nightspicer Před 3 lety +9

      @@yondie491 that's why the OP said he's gonna publish all of those tunes

  • @michaellowe5558
    @michaellowe5558 Před 2 lety

    Is Dwight Yokan's "Thousand Miles from Nowhere" just a slowed down version of "Well Respected Man" by the Kinks?

  • @ShadowFireclaws
    @ShadowFireclaws Před 6 měsíci +1

    I have a few more for you.
    1) The instrumental to "My Baby Loves Me" by Martina McBride sounds strangely similar to that of "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen
    2) The opening chords and chord progression of "Show Me The Light" by Michael Lloyd and Debbie Litton sounds exactly like those from "Lost Without Your Love" by Bread

  • @aargomemnon
    @aargomemnon Před 4 lety +427

    So by Ice's logic, stealing is acceptable as long as the owners don't catch you? Florida man.

    • @skyblazeeterno
      @skyblazeeterno Před 4 lety +10

      Copying or using music is NOT stealing

    • @thefakepie1126
      @thefakepie1126 Před 4 lety +8

      ​@@skyblazeeterno yes , sample is a very common practice , and it's only using a part of a song to make another part of another song , it's still art , and a lot of songs that a lot of people knows and loves use sample of other song , for reference I have a video of 20 popular US rap song and their samples : czcams.com/video/dkl-wU2iZR8/video.html

    • @thealternativeequalitycong8593
      @thealternativeequalitycong8593 Před 3 lety +8

      There’s a difference between Sampling with credit and just taking it. For example, 1D credited both The Clash and The Who with giving them the idea for the riffs in two of their songs. Ice just took the baseline and the royalties you would normally get out of the then sick Mercury’s mouth.

    • @Reno_Slim
      @Reno_Slim Před 3 lety

      It's the code of the ghetto...that Robert Van Winkle has no connection to.

  • @atticusstephenson2895
    @atticusstephenson2895 Před 3 lety +721

    Like George Harrison said, this would make me never want to release music again. If I was sued, it would completely shake my confidence and I would second guess every musical decision.

    • @alicefinardi1025
      @alicefinardi1025 Před 3 lety +45

      I think it was much worse in the beginning because this kind of lawsuits were not so popular. Nowadays we get one of these for almost every big hit so i dont think artists feel so much questioned in their creative process as he was.

    • @MrJesusHKrist
      @MrJesusHKrist Před 3 lety +1

      Don't worry about it I've ripped off soon many songs and I'm rich as Funk you up rich as Funk you up -Mark Ronson

    • @jenm1
      @jenm1 Před 3 lety +15

      he's so obviously lying though

    • @lazer2365
      @lazer2365 Před 3 lety +14

      He should have just confessed that he copied, and settled out of court.
      Led Zeppelin did that several times.

    • @bobbyarp8
      @bobbyarp8 Před 3 lety +6

      Poor George lol

  • @rafaelsantosx
    @rafaelsantosx Před 2 lety +2

    The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony is a major case of a lawsuit over a sample.

  • @CaptainRon1913
    @CaptainRon1913 Před 3 lety +3

    It's hard to believe George Harrison didn't hear "He's so fine" Chiffon's song in 1963. It made it to #16 on the UK charts, which means it was a hit and had wide spread radio play. "One fine day", Doo Ron Ron, and Loc-Motion were also on the charts. The Beatles songs were exploding in the UK at the same time.
    I don't know, maybe he just didn't remember hearing it. I can't imagine the hectic lifestyle the Beatles must have had. My Sweet Lord came out 7yrs later in 1970

    • @lukebrennan5780
      @lukebrennan5780 Před 2 lety +1

      I have always assumed he had heard it at some point in their madness and had genuinely not consciously known. His response felt true. As he ended up paying and then buying it, I think it shows he wasn't going to let it sit and felt hurt/attacked over it. A mess that worked out for each side eventually.

  • @charliemayfilms1550
    @charliemayfilms1550 Před 4 lety +432

    Vanilla ice: "its not the same"
    So that was a lie.

    • @saraa136
      @saraa136 Před 3 lety +1

      Ding ding ding ding ding

    • @blueprint7
      @blueprint7 Před 3 lety

      It wasn't

    • @saraa136
      @saraa136 Před 3 lety +1

      @@blueprint7 Have you heard the bassline? Yes it’s a lie cause it was the same, stop defending him

    • @blueprint7
      @blueprint7 Před 3 lety

      @@saraa136 No it wasn't. There was an extra eighth note. There was a lawsuit because of the recording being used without credit

  • @AJEDDY97
    @AJEDDY97 Před 4 lety +150

    So what you’re saying is that Tom Petty was just a phenomenal person who loved the music.

    • @rocknrollmonkey8668
      @rocknrollmonkey8668 Před 4 lety +8

      Alexander Eddy yes, and Tom had enough money, and probably owned all his publishing, so there were no other (poor)people's grubby little hands in the pie.

    • @noahporter4487
      @noahporter4487 Před 4 lety +13

      You could say that Petty wasn't being... petty

    • @undinism69
      @undinism69 Před 4 lety +2

      That's the thing, most people that get sued, aren't by the people who wrote the original, it's the right holders.

    • @U2fan24
      @U2fan24 Před 4 lety

      Yeah everyone needs to be more like him.

  • @djcrwn3097
    @djcrwn3097 Před 3 lety

    How do I contact David to let him know I know another stolen sample with no credit ?

  • @gearoid72
    @gearoid72 Před 2 lety +1

    David Chrisie’s ‘Saddle Up’ totally robs the guitar riff from Dillinger's ‘Cocaine in my Brain’

  • @PROgamingspot
    @PROgamingspot Před 4 lety +479

    Clicked because Jim Morrison

    • @yvngxchristo
      @yvngxchristo Před 4 lety +37

      I respected Billie before, don't liked, just respected. But now she's messing up with my favorite band, YOU'LL DIE-

    • @jamassajm
      @jamassajm Před 4 lety +5

      same

    • @tomdowd5510
      @tomdowd5510 Před 4 lety +5

      Didn’t we all

    • @diegom-a7970
      @diegom-a7970 Před 4 lety +4

      Same

    • @StoufSto
      @StoufSto Před 4 lety +11

      @@yvngxchristo It's not her. All produced pop music is just a callback to previous hits.
      They don't take risks, they just rake money.
      Every current pop song is an old pop song, reworked with parts of different succesful songs, so that they're just different enough, while bheing something that everyone already likes before they even hear it.

  • @okilfeathermusic
    @okilfeathermusic Před 3 lety +97

    the confident gleam in Vanilla Ice's eyes as he says adding one 8th note to the Under Pressure hook makes it his is what gets me

  • @lukejones0826
    @lukejones0826 Před rokem +1

    0:25 I literally thought this song was a cover of The Doors until I saw the thumbnail for this video

  • @GianlucaGallo
    @GianlucaGallo Před 4 lety +620

    If Bach was alive, he would sue every musician ever

    • @Arvid2022
      @Arvid2022 Před 4 lety +13

      Morfo1010 not really. You can derive income from it for a specific period of time after the death of an artist. For artists who die today, the copyright in original artistic works currently lasts for 70 years from the death of the creator.

    • @deannilvalli6579
      @deannilvalli6579 Před 4 lety +17

      @@Arvid2022 So Bach is shit out of luck, eh? I bet he'd make enough money just giving organ concerts.

    • @raykent3211
      @raykent3211 Před 4 lety +6

      He did some beautiful "rip offs" of Handel and Vivaldi, among others. Now we can happily listen to the different interpretations.

    • @pedrosilvamusician
      @pedrosilvamusician Před 4 lety +1

      @@deannilvalli6579 Hence why many artists are using excerpts like maroon 5 picked up canon in D from pachelbel

    • @andrewmetcalfe9898
      @andrewmetcalfe9898 Před 4 lety

      Wouldn’t he be sued by Vivaldi?