Originally Posted By: Roger Brown
<...snip...> Conversely, I know of a LOT of legitimate infringements that were handled privately, that were never made public. The infringing writer basically had an "oh crap!" moment, approached the original creator and said "let me make this right". <...>


About 10 years ago I was fooling around on the flute and wrote a melody. Being more of an improvisor than a song writer I never did anything with it other than messing around with it as a warm up to a practice session.

This went on for a year or so.

Then one day I bought a CD of an LP I had as a boy, "Time Further Out" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It's playing along, and all of a sudden, there was my song!!! Well there was what I thought I had written but merely remembered but forgot that I had heard it before. I was glad I never fleshed it out and tried to write an actual song out of that melody.

It's easy to do something like that.

If I unconsciously ripped off someone else's song, I would want to make it right without going to court.

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