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I remember that Rozsa went to court over a theme from THE KILLERS [?] being used in the Dragnet radio and/or TV series.
Are there any other interesting cases involving film music?
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DIdn't this thread have a lot more posts yesterday?
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most ridiculous of ALL-TIME; LICENCE TO KILL
the opening brass chords are very similar to GOLDFINGER . The composer admitted this, sayng it was an homage to a previous Bond song.
Unfortunately, this minor 'lift' resulted in Barry, Newley/whatsisname to get a share of the credit
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brm
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most ridiculous of ALL-TIME; LICENCE TO KILL
the opening brass chords are very similar to GOLDFINGER . The composer admitted this, sayng it was an homage to a previous Bond song.
Unfortunately, this minor 'lift' resulted in Barry, Newley/whatsisname to get a share of the credi
I don't know any of the specifics here, but just calling something an "homage" doesn't mean you can get away with plagiarism.
Is two notes enough to qualify for plagiarism? If so, shouldn't there be literally thousands of legitimate plagiarism cases in film music?
(This is the Gladys Knight titles song we're talking about here, right?)
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most ridiculous of ALL-TIME; LICENCE TO KILL
the opening brass chords are very similar to GOLDFINGER . The composer admitted this, sayng it was an homage to a previous Bond song.
Unfortunately, this minor 'lift' resulted in Barry, Newley/whatsisname to get a share of the credi
I don't know any of the specifics here, but just calling something an "homage" doesn't mean you can get away with plagiarism.
Is two notes enough to qualify for plagiarism? If so, shouldn't there be literally thousands of legitimate plagiarism cases in film music?
(This is the Gladys Knight titles song we're talking about here, right?)
The opening brass fanfare for the title song is basically a paraphrase with specific notes and chords taken from GOLDFINGER. That is all that is similar
I think its ridiculous if you consider that the song is part of an ongoing series copyrighted by one family estate
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Definitely.
Oh, SchiffyM -- you might get a kick out of this. I thought you might have misspelled the word, so I went to Google and searched it and I found this highly amusing thing:
http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
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I agree that the Licence To Kill case was taking things a bit far. Having said that though, in fairness, it is more than 2 notes and it is fairly obvious that the intention was to rip the Goldfinger opening.
Intention, if you can demonstrate it, has to count for something.
But, you know, Thunderball takes phrases from The James Bond Theme. I don't just mean the opening backing, which is also in Goldfinger, but the opening brass and percussion bars of Thunderball are the opening bars of the bebop section of the James Bond theme. Now, whether or not you belong to the "John Barry really wrote the James Bond theme" camp or not, you could argue Thunderball rips the James Bond theme more than Licence To Kill rips Goldfinger.
So it does get a bit tenuous when you wanna start making arguments over a small cluster of notes.
Cheers
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Jay Rifkin vs. Hans Zimmer in the early 00s?
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