Chapter 937 Plagiarism judgment

Qin Jue frowned.

She opened her laptop, found the “victimized song” “Flying Over the Galaxy”, imported it into the audio processing software together with “Soaring” stored in her private hard drive, and put on headphones to identify it carefully.

Bluestar has a detailed process for judging whether a musical work is plagiarized. A simple sentence “sounds like XX” cannot be used as a strong basis. It depends on two aspects, namely “the relationship between the suspected plagiarist and the plagiarized work. Whether there is a contact channel” and “Whether the work itself is substantially similar”.

The contact channels are well understood. If someone writes a demo of a song in private on a whim, and has not released it publicly on any platform, nor played it to anyone in reality, then he or she will prevent the possibility of plagiarism from the first contact. In other words, no one else knows or heard you write such a melody at all, and they have nowhere to copy it if they want to.

In this case, if the music is similar, it can only be because the creative ideas really collided, which is purely coincidental and does not constitute plagiarism.

The substantive similarity is not the “several similarities of the bars are plagiarism” rumored on the Internet, but must be put into practice, based on “at least four consecutive music bars”, compare the chord composition, melody trend, rhythm, The tonality, the theme, the orchestration selected for the arrangement and the actual performance effect, the emotional color expressed by the work, etc. The more similar points, the more likely it is to be judged as plagiarism.

In addition to this, there are three common misunderstandings, which are “music style”, “music sampling” and “legal adaptation”.

The music style is easy to understand. For example, in rock songs, there is often a cool and domineering electric guitar solo; for lyrical songs, there is often a clean and gentle piano melody as an introduction. Bass is often used in jazz, and grand violin is almost necessary in orchestral music. This is an almost traditional and template-like component. As long as it is this music style, there must be similarities in the sense of hearing.

However, some listeners who are not sensitive to arrangement may feel “hey, the style is similar, the melody is a bit similar, alas, the instruments are all the same! Could it be plagiarism?”, This kind of rough judgment without basis is pure nonsense, and the original creator who was detained is very innocent.

After all, if this statement is true, then all songs whose rhythm is “moving and playing” will be hit, and there will be no pure originality in the world, everyone is copying it.

To a certain extent, music sampling is similar to paper citation, which means that the arranger puts the music and sound effects within the scope of public copyright as is or adapts them into their own original songs.

For example, someone recorded a piece of wind sound, uploaded it to the Internet and said, “Everyone can use it at will, and it is no problem for commercial use.” Then someone puts this wind sound effect at the beginning of the song for emotional import. This is a kind of sampling, which cannot be used. Pointing at the creator’s nose and saying that others have copied others’ “wind”.

Similar samples include classical music composed by musicians such as Beethoven, vocal chorus, drum hi-hat rhythm, electronic sound effects, etc. recorded in the early years or in recent years. Music within the scope of public copyright is a treasure trove of material left by the creators in the past and benefiting future generations today.

As for legal adaptation, it is easier to understand. For example, A buys the copyright of a song from singer B, re-arranges the song, re-writes the lyrics, or extracts some of the sound source samples for re-creation, etc. The songs born through these actions are attributed to A’s originality. There is no problem, it does not constitute infringement and plagiarism.

Qin Jue took some time to read “Flying Over the Galaxy” and “Soaring” from beginning to end. The song orchestration, drum beats and melody are all in the software, just like two cows that have been dismantled into skeletons in front of them. , and compare the similarities between the two from each bone.

Listening and watching again, after tossing for nearly half an hour, Qin Jue smacked his lips and got up from the table to touch the pocky box.

She came to the conclusion that it was rubbing the edges.

This is the most annoying situation. To say that it was not copied, it is really too similar; to say that it was copied, it is really not that much.

Qin Jue was helpless with a pocky in his mouth.

The style of “Soaring” is lively and lively. The guitars in the orchestration are refreshing, the drums are dynamic, and some electronic music is appropriately mixed to make it easier to shake the legs; “Flying Over the Galaxy”, which was released two months earlier than it, has taken a similar path, but Electronic elements are dominant, the overall melody is slightly melodious, the rhythm is a little slower, and the lyrics are few words and not so finely divided.

The reason why the song “Soaring” included in “Thousands of Colors” caused controversy is that its chorus part is very similar to “Flying Over the Galaxy”. The main melody of the climax of “Flying Over the Galaxy” is “1-7-6-5-7-“, while in “Soaring” just listening to the accompaniment, the main melody is exactly the same as the former, but it becomes “[1]—[7 ]6, [6]5, [5]6, 5[7]—”.

In addition, the overall rhythm of “Soaring” is faster than “Flying Over the Galaxy”. The overall feeling is that “Flying over the Galaxy” has become 1.25 times faster, and then on the basis of the chorus main melody, some “broken words” are added. It became the chorus of “Flying”.

The attack and fall are exactly the same, the context is highly similar, and the thoughts expressed are still “I want to leap, I want to fly high”, no wonder there is suspicion of plagiarism.

But the embarrassment of this matter is that the style is similar + the orchestration is the same style + the theme is similar + the chorus melody hit the chorus. Of these four conditions, only the last one says plagiarism is more convincing. The first three, to put it bluntly, are due to the shortcomings of Longguo pop music, especially the current creation of idol group pop songs.

The homogenization is serious, the templates are all there, the melody and lyrics are arranged in one set, and the rhythm and beat are similar for the convenience of choreography. They are just ordinary saliva songs. They are basically the same in the past. Most of them are not very pleasant, and I have no memory. point. Maybe pick out two songs for passers-by to listen to. After listening to them, they all feel that they are not bad, they are quite similar.

Originally it was just two pipeline products whose quality can only be said to be ok, but because the chorus is similar, the homogenization element of this cliché was also dug out along the way. , at first glance it doesn’t seem that way. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

To evaluate according to Qin Jue’s true thoughts, these two songs are barely a chicken head, and neither of them can be called a phoenix tail, and it is boring to say who copied who, why don’t you spend this time on composing good songs , more snacks…

After she “pickled” a pocky, she took out her mobile phone to send a message to Liu Huajun.

[Sister Liu, do you want to help? 】

Liu Huajun’s reply only took 20 seconds. Sure enough, it hasn’t stopped at this point. It is estimated that the countermeasures are being discussed urgently.

She replied to a voice message, her attitude was always straightforward and straightforward, saying that it would be too unreasonable for Qin Jue to trouble Qin Jue with such a task, but at the end she said, “I still have questions and want to consult, I’ll chat when I have time.” After all, a little clue has been revealed, and the situation or the associated impact seems to be a bit pessimistic.

Qin Jue didn’t know how bad the current situation over there was, but since Liu Huajun expressed her attitude, she didn’t bother to worry about it, she just said hello to Hu Changzhen, and told her to pay more attention to the online news about “Qianse” trend of public opinion.

This is undoubtedly a disaster for Shi Yan and others, but since the song was bought by the company and attributed to them, they will be pushed to the front of the stage as the most public-facing group to be scolded.

The more the supporters speak up, saying that “they don’t have the right and qualifications to choose, and they all blame the company and the composer”, the more they will be counterproductive, and they will be accused of “picking cleanly” and “just wanting to take advantage and not taking responsibility”.

After thinking about it, Qin Jue did not contact those children.

It is the teammates beside them who always accompany them on their journey, not her teacher.

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