Members blue2blue Posted January 28, 2013 Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 This article in Wired got me to thinking... Jonathan Coulton Explains How Glee Ripped Off His Cover Song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iwillfightu Posted January 28, 2013 Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 My judgement on this is clouded by my hatred of ironic rap covers. ANYWAY, in "rearranging" the song he added melodies that werent in the original. Couldnt he just sue for the melodies? Instead of treating it as an unathorised use of "his" song, treat it as an original song that is ripping off his work. I dont know if theres precendent for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 28, 2013 Members Share Posted January 28, 2013 It's a blatant rip-off of Coulter's version, which clearly makes it an issue of intellectual property rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted January 30, 2013 Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 This looks like a situation where what's legal and what's right don't match up. On the other hand, deincentivising the creation of ironic cover versions may be the accidentally noble outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted January 30, 2013 Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 Chicken Monkey wrote: This looks like a situation where what's legal and what's right don't match up. On the other hand, deincentivising the creation of ironic cover versions may be the accidentally noble outcome. I liked the cover version. (The original, not the one on Glee.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rangefinder Posted January 31, 2013 Members Share Posted January 31, 2013 Chicken Monkey wrote: This looks like a situation where what's legal and what's right don't match up. +1 to this. Glee can do whatever they want, of course, and it's par for the course in Hollywood to ingore/bully the little guy. But you think they could have thrown him a bone somehow.Legally, I'm not so sure that any change in this area would be a net positive. Every basement band in existence would try to establish claims on "their" arrangements, and you'd have a dozen lawsuits every time anybody performed a cover song in any highly (or not-so-highly) visible way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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