Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@a... wrote:
> I read that there is some software being developed that can tell if 
you used 
> any audio from a commercial release. It was a year or two ago that 
I read it, 
> but I think it has a library of all released CD's and then it scans 
your audio 
> file and looks for the same patterns of audio waves. 
> 
> Of course this doesn't address the copyright debate per melodies. 
Regarding 
> melodies, there are many that similar that never get prosecuted. We 
have all 
> heard a song which sounds almost identital to another. The George 
Harrison thing 
> is a bit scary because its essentially three notes that were the 
same ("My 
> Sweet Day" and "One Fine Day")   - but I think George's song was 
more intersting 
> what it did with it (the "really wanna a...." part). All of pop 
music walks a 
> thin line between to being too similar to other music and 
> uncommerical/unpopular.
> 
> By the way, did you notice that Destiny's Child "Survivor" uses the 
same 
> chords as Gansta Paradise which is a rip of Stevie Wonder's 
Pasttime Paradise?

The song and line is "He's so fine" and it's exactly the same as "My 
sweet Lord"
The next line is "I don't know how I'm gonna do it" and George's line 
is "I realy wanna see you". They're also exact.
My understand is a musical line identical constitutes an infringment. 
How many notes is the question. I happen to like both songs and 
although the melodies are the same, I never think of the other when 
listenening to either.

The Pastime Paradise thing was probably liscesed from Stevie, cause 
it's his track and he's not that ignorant about such things.
Gary