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Old 11-24-2005, 07:11 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
You don't have to change it much. You can't copyright an arrangement. You need to have something very specific or copy line for line. See also: Vanilla Ice. The main reason he lost that battle was because his song used the same riffs verbatim.

However, there's nothing stoping me from writing a song using Smeells Like...'s chords exactly, right down to the articulation and processing of the guitars, and throwing some Nirvana like vocals over it, provided I don't copy the words. You might EVEN get away with using the same lead vocals and such, provided you didn't copy the words.

Might.

But you have to be pretty exact to get caught with that shit.
Exactly. Nice cheap alternative to paying for the songs.
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