Notes may tell what portions of the songs are similar or may include reliable coverage of the similarity, such as if the copyright owner of one of the songs sued or threatened to sue. In the following table, a demo is a video, recording, or other published work, whether authorized or under fair use, that plays the relevant segments simultaneously (a 'mash-up') or consecutively (a 'medley') to demonstrate this similarity. Maintaining this list may be my way of coping with the fear of accidentally writing a song that someone else already owns, not catching it before release, being sued and losing, and having no form of revenue from which to pay damages. This may happen before release or shortly after.īut this resolution is not available in cases where a composer is trying to avoid having to pay royalties entirely, such as music for a video game intended to be released as free software. Within the popular music industry, songwriters may settle infringement allegations out of court by agreeing to add the earlier song's author as a co-author of the later song and split the publishing royalties. The trouble comes when this phenomenon happens to a judge. This is the frequency illusion or Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. If your ear is attuned to this, then hearing one song will make you hear it in other songs.
It's not necessarily that the whole song sounds like another song, but when you hear a characteristic passage or the start of a stanza or refrain on the radio, and it sounds like that of another song, you might grow suspicious. This is a list of songs that allegedly sound alike where there is no evidence of legitimate authorized reuse (such as licensed sampling, parody, or expiry). In the popular music industry, thieves 'steal' from thieves, and there's no end in sight. Feel free to leave a comment if you disagree with something. This article contains original research, observations, conjecture, and synthesis.
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