Theme and copywrite

[The Filth Wizard]

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).

 

[enosis7]

Footy perspective, means nothing (although Disney may have had a look in on Freo's 'theme'- very seven dwarfs).

FWIW the heave ho part of the Freo theme song is taken from "the Song of the Volga Boatmen", a Russian folk song.

 

[screech]

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...

 

[enosis7]

No, it's 70 years after the death of the author, or in some cases like sound recordings 70 years after first publication.

 

[Dawson]

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

 

[Barabbas]

Most AFL theme songs are "Public Domain" and therefore copyright free (eg Bizet's "March Of The Toreadors" from his opera Carmen is used as the music for Geelong's theme).

This. You can use anything from the public domain however you want.