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Theme and copywrite

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On a music perspective, Huey Lewis received a decent payout on the release of the newish Ghostbusters video game as its theme is a direct rip from The News' 'I Want A New Drug'. I also recall a lot of similarities between RHCP's 'Dani California' and Tom Petty's 'Last Dance With Mary Jane' that recently filled Mr Petty's wallet a little. And of course there is the classic Ice Ice Baby/Under Pressure rip that Vanilla somehow thought he would get away with.

Footy perspective, means nothing (although Disney may have had a look in on Freo's 'theme'- very seven dwarfs;)).
 
I'm unsure of the length of time, but I believe copyrighted music ends up in the public domain after a certain number of decades. Meaning anyone can sample or reproduce it.

50 Years,

Hence the re-releasing of the Beatles back-catalogue + Rock Star etc
Last chance to cash in before it becomes public domain...
 

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ive actually studied it, and in a case like that where the beat is the same, unless it is identical, it makes it extremely difficult to be prosecuted.

Another example The Living End - Wake Up.

the music is clearly a Pink Floyd song (i am not a fan of floyd, cant remember the song).
Then you should probably study it a bit more
 

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