Qin Jue frowned.
She opened her laptop, found the "victim song" "Flying Over the Stars", imported it into the audio processing software together with "Soar" stored in her personal hard drive, put on headphones and listened carefully.
Blue Star has a detailed process to determine whether a music work is plagiarized. Simply saying "it sounds like XX" cannot be used as a strong basis. The details also depend on two major aspects, namely "the relationship between the suspected plagiarist and the plagiarized work." "Whether there are contact channels" and "whether the works themselves are substantially similar".
Contact channels are easy to understand. If someone privately writes a song demo on a whim and has not published it publicly on any platform, nor played it to anyone in reality, then he or she has eliminated the possibility of being plagiarized in the first place. In other words, others have no idea or heard that you have written such a melody, and there is no way they can copy it even if they want to.
In this case, if the music is similar, it can only mean that the creative ideas really collided. It is purely coincidental and does not constitute plagiarism.
Substantial similarity does not mean that "a few measures of similarity constitute plagiarism" as widely circulated on the Internet, but must be implemented in practice, and based on "at least four consecutive music measures", compare the chord composition, melody direction, rhythm, and The tonality, theme, orchestration and actual performance effects, the emotional expression of the work, etc. The more similar points there are, the greater the possibility of being judged as plagiarism.
In addition, there are three common misunderstandings, namely "music style", "music sampling" and "legal adaptation".
The music style is very easy to understand. For example, rock songs often have a cool and domineering electric guitar solo; and lyrical songs often have a clean and gentle piano melody as an introduction. Bass is often used in jazz, and large and medium violins are almost essential in orchestral music. This is an almost traditional, template-like component. As long as it is this music style, there must be a similar sound.
However, some listeners who are not sensitive to arrangements will feel like "Hey, the style is similar, the melody is also similar, and the instruments are all the same! Could it be plagiarism?" when they hear two songs. This rough judgment without any basis is pure nonsense, and the original creator who was labeled is also very innocent.
After all, if we really follow this statement, then all songs with a rhythm of "move time, play time" will fall into the trap. There will be no pure originality in the world, everyone will copy 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 intact or adapted into his own original music.
For example, someone recorded a piece of wind sound, uploaded it to the Internet and said, "Everyone can use it as they please, and it is okay for commercial use." Then someone put this wind sound effect into the beginning of the song to introduce emotions. This is a kind of sampling and cannot be used. Pointing at the creator’s nose and saying that they copied someone else’s “style”.
Similar samples include classical music composed by musicians such as Beethoven, vocal choruses recorded in the early years or in recent years, drum and hi-hat rhythms, electronic sound effects, etc. Music within the scope of public copyright is a treasure trove of materials left by past creators to benefit future generations today.
As for legal adaptation, it’s even simpler to understand. For example, A purchases the copyright of a song by singer B, re-arranges the song, re-writes the lyrics, or extracts some of the sound source samples to recreate it, etc. The song born through these actions is attributed to A’s original creation. There is no problem and it does not constitute infringement or plagiarism.
Qin Jue spent some time and read "Flying Over the Stars" and "Soaring" from beginning to end. The song orchestration, drumbeats and melodies were all visible in the software, just like two cows that had been dismantled into skeletons in front of him. , comparing the similarities between the two from each bone.
After listening and watching for nearly half an hour, Qin Jue smacked his lips, got up from the table and touched the pocky box.
She came to the conclusion that it was a brush-off.
This situation is most annoying. Say it didn't copy it, it's really too similar; say it did copy it, but it really doesn't matter if you look closely.
Qin Jue held a pocky in his mouth and looked helpless.
The style of "Soaring" is lively and brisk, with refreshing guitars and dynamic drum beats, and some electronic music mixed in for easy leg shaking; "Flying Over the Stars", which was released two months earlier, followed a similar path, except Electronic elements dominate, the overall melody is slightly melodious, the tempo is a bit slower, and the lyrics have fewer words and are not so detailed.
The song "Soar" included in "Thousand Colors" caused controversy because its chorus is very similar to "Flying Over the Stars". The main melody of the climax of "Flying Over the Stars" is "1-7-6-5-7-", and if you just listen to the accompaniment of "Soaring", the main melody is exactly the same as the former, but when it is sung, it becomes "[1]-[7" ]6, [6]5, [5]6, 5[7]—”.
In addition, the overall rhythm of "Soaring" is faster than that of "Flying Over the Stars", and the overall feeling is that "Flying Over the Stars" has been changed to 1.25 times the speed, and then some "fragmented words" are added to the main theme of the chorus, and it's like became the refrain of "Soar".
The onset and falling sounds are exactly the same, the context is highly similar, and the thoughts expressed are all "I want to leapfrog, I want to fly high." No wonder there are suspicions of plagiarism.
But the embarrassing thing about this is that the style is similar + the orchestration is the same + the theme is similar + the chorus melody is different. Among these four conditions, only the last one is more convincing to say that it is plagiarism. The first three, to put it bluntly, are due to the shortcomings in the creation of popular music in Dragon Kingdom, especially the pop songs of idol groups.
There is serious homogeneity, the templates are all there, the melodies, lyrics and orchestration are all the same, and the choreography and rhythm are similar for convenience. They are just mediocre saliva songs. From a rough listen, they are basically the same. Most of them are not very good, and I have no memory. point. Maybe I pick two songs at random and show them to passers-by. After listening to them, they think they are very similar.
Originally, they were just two assembly-line products that could only be said to be of decent quality. However, because the choruses were similar, this clichéd element of homogeneity was also dug out. All the similarities were added together to determine "plagiarism". , but that’s not what it seems at first glance.
To judge based on Qin Jue’s true inner thoughts, these two songs can barely be called chicken heads and cannot be called phoenix tails. It’s so boring to talk about who copied whom. Why don’t you use this time to create good songs? , more snacks...
She finished smoking a pocky and took out her cell phone to send a message to Liu Huajun.
[Sister Liu, do you want to help? 】
Liu Huajun's reply was only twenty seconds apart. Sure enough, he still hadn't rested at this point. He was probably discussing urgent countermeasures.
She replied to a voice message with her usual straightforward attitude, saying that it was inappropriate to bother Qin Jue with such a matter that was within his scope, but she said at the end, "I still have questions I want to ask, let's chat when we have time." After all, a little clue has leaked out, and the situation or the associated impact seems a bit pessimistic.
Qin Jue didn't know how bad the current situation over there was, but since Liu Huajun expressed his attitude, she didn't force herself to worry about it. She just said hello to Chief Hu and asked her to pay more attention to the online articles about "Qianse" trends of public opinion.
This matter is undoubtedly an unforeseen disaster for Shi Yan and others, but since the song was purchased by the company and belongs to them, they will be pushed to the stage as the most public-facing group and be scolded.
The more supporters speak up and say, "They have no right or qualification to choose, and it's all the fault of the company and the songwriters," the more counterproductive it will be, and they will be accused of "taking everything cleanly," and "just wanting to get benefits without taking responsibility."
After thinking about it, Qin Jue didn't contact those children.
The ones who accompany them on their journey are their teammates, not her as a teacher.
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