Originally Posted By: Marius1976
Hi all!

Yesterday I composed a 3 part round for my Music students. It is created with Logic pro X and Band in a Box. You can see the movie here:

https://youtu.be/g2Lp-HwqiLw

I used Band in a Box for Mac 2017 and I used style _RootSyp.Sty with some basic Chords: G, D, Em, C, D and this over and over again.

now I get a copyright claim that I used the music from a song called:
Helping Hands NO MELODY-19260-RFR

First of all, that song does not come even close to what my song sounds (you could listen that helping hands song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTawKmes4A0 )

And next to that, how can we use Band in a Box without getting the risk of these claims? It is not my main goal to make money with the music using youtube, but on the other side, I do not want other people to claim something, the do not own.

Is this something other people experience too? Or is this just a bad luck situation?

Thanks for any help!
Marius


So how do you interpret the section in bold red as a strike having anything to do with BIAB? It says right there that the strike is about using "Music from a song blah blah blah", which I indeed found quite similar. Nowhere in his report from youtube does it say BIAB. BIAB didn't create the melody, just the backing track. Marius created the melody.

Now, that being said, does this copyright strike make any sense? Hell no. The original is a silly little song to start with and he used his creation as a teaching tool for kids. How PETTY does the author have to be to file that claim against Marius because 8 notes line up? Is Marius going to make a boatload of money with his little round to teach kids? This is the kind of BS that just makes me roll my eyes and hate people even more. But to make the point again, after reading his post at least 10 times, I saw not one word about BIAB as far as the copyright claim, and BIAB didn't create that melody. He did. I'm glad the strike was lifted but it should never have been raised to begin with. In a time where EVERY song sounds the same.... wow. I mean this isn't Brian Wilson lifting Be My Baby for Don't Worry Baby here (which he did).