[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <nk8etu$9u5$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
<maherrj at gmail.com> writes: 

> Anyway Led Zeppelin are heading for a fall and with over $550million
> in revenue to date, it's going to cost 'em big time.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMYb93EW2s

There are many similar cases, e.g. George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and
The Chiffons' "He's So Fine".  There is Jethro Tull's "We Used to Know"
and The Eagles' "Hotel California".  (Ian Anderson jokes about the
similarity, especially since the Eagles supported Tull not long before
the song was written, but he overlooks the fact that Don Felder wrote
the music, who was not then in The Eagles.  Sure, it could still be
plagiarism, intentional or not, but the fact that The Eagles supported
Tull is then irrelevant.)  Usually, these are
unintentional---coincidence, both (unconsciously) based on some unknown 
tune, or perhaps one is based on the other, but there is no intentional 
plagiarism.

But Led Zeppelin have a LONG history of out-and-out plagiarism, and have
been sued (and lost) many times, so it wouldn't surprise me here.  
Having said that, the two songs are not THAT similar.

> If you think the case is ridiculous and doesn't have a hope of getting 
> up just look to the precedence of Men at Work "The land down under"
> http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music
> /men-at-works-colin-hay-says-down-under-lawsuit-contributed-to-death-of-
> his-dad-and-bandmate/news-story/db47d17797386c960b7a7737974ea1ce
> 
> I doubt many who didn't attend primary school in Oz know "kookaburra 
> sits in the old gum tree" but the similarity with the flute-break is 
> uncanny. Well, the judge thought so.

I know the song.  It's not that obscure.  I'm sure everyone in Oz has 
heard it.

> Is all of this happening because people/companies/trusts are just 
> feeding a few bars at a time into Google and seeing what it guesses?

No.