This is an interesting video blog by respected UK film critic Mark Kermode about the extent to which film's copy and plagarise each other. I didn't realise such flagrant lifts took place.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2011/07/recycling_or_transforming.html
He doesn't address IP but viewed from that lens it unintentional undermines it in an artistic field.
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I dunno, lifting sound effects or 1-2 second shots doesn't add up to an infraction worth worrying about. The Wilhelm scream is considered public domain by everyone in Hollywood.
Movies are stories with characters, settings, ambience, and plot. If we see these lifted wholesale and put into a movie, then the discussion begins.
My friends and I used to joke aout the movie "Top Gun II," otherwise known as "Days of Thunder." You could argue the entire storyline was lifted from Top Gun and placed in a NASCAR setting. To me, that's more blatent than a sound effect. LOL
This guy doesn't get into the IP issue either but he does a great job setting the path...
My friends and I used to joke aout the movie "Top Gun II," otherwise known as "Days of Thunder."
Pocahontas II, by far the biggest money maker ever, a.k.a. Avatar.
Anyone who's studied elementary music theory understands that there is a tiny number of chord progressions that are responsible for the vast majority of musical structure. The more you deviate from these basic chord progressions, the more likely you're creating a unique chord progression but it's also less likely that your chord progression will catch the attention of the public. This is almost definitional... if it's catchy, it gets copied... if it didn't get copied, that probably means it wasn't catchy enough. This is why every single song on the Top 40 chart sounds exactly the same. They're picked by the record execs precisely because they have chord progressions which the public is guaranteed to like.
Clayton -
LOL
Clayton, that vid is epic.
That vid was awesome Clayton.
Watch this. They try not to just take standard chords...
Or this
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Well, here's a testament to just how powerful those "standard" chord progressions are:
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If we're doing music, I'm surprised this hasn't been put up yet...
If you listen to American folk songs from before around the 1940's, you'll see lots of "plagerism", and nobody cared about it. Artists often mixed and matched songs, lyrics, chords etc. It was only after recorded music came around and brought copyright into the picture that you started to get people thinking of songs and films as "thiers".
FYI, it's spelled 'plagiarism'.
Note: Copying is not theft, though it might be bad form, especially if you don't cite the original author.
"Hits" are chosen by publishing execs, not the public. Let's be frank: "hit" consumers are ignorant of music history and imperceptive. Coldplay won song of the year for wording the melody in Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly" because tunes without words don't get promotion, few people know about them. "Record companies" don't record anything. They're just marketing loan sharks.